On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:14:17 -0000
"Aaron Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confabulated:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2007, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:36:19 -0600
> > Jesse Norell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confabulated:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:51 +0000, Duane Hill wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > So, does that mean I have to populate the required table(s)
> >> > beforehand as Postfix will ultimately only be accepting messages
> >> > for valid account.
> >> 
> >>   There is automatic account creation support (LDAP requires
> >> it) .. I don't know if it's in lmtp or only via dbmail-smtp, and I
> >> don't see anything in the sample dbmail.conf nor man pages, so
> >> someone else will have to provide details.
> 
> They're only shadow accounts so that we can maintain referential
> integrity between messages, mailboxes, and users. Full accounts
> cannot be autocreated.
> 
> There are options to create aliases that will accept all mail for a
> given domain, all subdomains, a single username for all domains, etc.
> See dbmail-users(8) man page for examples.
> 
> > Thanks for the info!
> > 
> > I already have written a Postfix policy server that uses the remote
> > MTA's API to verify if the recipient is valid and to populate the
> > dbmail_users table with the account name.
> 
> Cool! It'd be great if you'd like to share this code. Create a wiki
> page for it if you'd please :-)

I can do this. It is a migration script used as a Postfix policy server
to migrate email accounts from CommuniGate Pro.

I still have a couple more things to add in yet that I found the policy
was lacking.

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