-------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Nady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:57 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP and PAM
> On July 8, 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Andrew Nady writes: >> > On July 8, 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where does the mail go? >> > >> > Exactly my point, the pickle is that courier is not able to create a >> > $HOME or a $HOME/Maildir. >> >> No, you missed the point. An IMAP server's job is to provide access to >> mail >> in existing accounts via IMAP. If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where is >> the mail that the IMAP server supposed to read? If you do not have a >> $HOME/Maildir, then you, obviously, do not have a mail account to provide >> access to. It's not the IMAP server's job to create accounts. The >> technical >> specification for IMAP may be found here: >> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html. No part of the IMAP server's job >> involves creating mail accounts. Furthermore, it is dangerous to do so. >> If, >> for example, mail accounts are supposed to reside on an NFS server, but >> the >> NFS mount failed previously, the IMAP server will happily go ahead and >> start scribbling over the local disk. > > Hmm, in my case I have no NFS mount just plain old ext3. > I am well aware of what IMAP should and shouldn't do. In my case I need a > $HOME/Maildir generated for users that authenticating with /krb5/pam/imap > > Am I in the wrong mailing list? Yes - ask on the list of MTA you use to deliver mail to the box (postfix or whatever it is) if it's possible to create maildir on first mail delivery. Or write a script yourself to create homedirs by dumping ldap search results, say nightly. Most standard linux distros will also create homedir (with /etc/skel) on users first ssh login - maybe you could use it somehow. cheers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
