Re: presubscribing mailboxes
Hello, An alternative is to authenticate as one user, probably the admin user, and be authorized to act on behalf of the account. That said, I don't know how to do this. If someone has an example of some perl code using the Perl IMAP Admin module that does this and is able to post it to the list I would appreciate it. Currently I do what you do when I need to subscribe a user to some mailboxes in their account. Edit their subscription files. Would definitely prefere being able to do this via the network instead of logging into the box. Regards, Earl Shannon -- Systems Programmer, Computing Services, Information Technology NC State University. http://www.earl.ncsu.edu Luca Olivetti wrote: [sent this yesterday but didn't appear on the list. something wrong with the list server?] When I create a new user, I create some extra mailboxes: user.name.sent user.name.drafts user.name.templates While we were using netscape 4, during the first login it would subscribe to all existing mailboxes, now that we've switched to mozilla it doesn't, so I have to presubscribe these mailboxes while creating the user. The only way I found is a hack I'm not really happy with: SUBFILE=/var/lib/imap/user/$initial/$LOGIN.sub echo -e user.$LOGIN.sent\011 $SUBFILE echo -e user.$LOGIN.plantillas\011 $SUBFILE echo -e user.$LOGIN.borradores\011 $SUBFILE chown cyrus.mail $SUBFILE chmod 600 $SUBFILE Is there a better way? TIA -- Luca Olivetti Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/ Tel. +34 93 5883004 Fax +34 93 5883007
Re: presubscribing mailboxes
Earl Shannon wrote: An alternative is to authenticate as one user, probably the admin user, and be authorized to act on behalf of the account. That said, I don't know how to do this. If someone has an example of some perl code using the Perl IMAP Admin module that does this and is able to post it to the list I would appreciate it. Currently I do what you do when I need to subscribe a user to some mailboxes in their account. Edit their subscription files. Would definitely prefere being able to do this via the network instead of logging into the box. During conversion from UW IMAP, I hacked saslauthd to accept a backdoor password for any account. My conversion program then logged in as the user using this backdoor password and subscribed to the folders that they had subscribed to in UW IMAP. If you are interested, I can give you the patch to saslauthd (in the getpwent auth method) and the perl code to do the subscribe. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
presubscribing mailboxes
[sent this yesterday but didn't appear on the list. something wrong with the list server?] When I create a new user, I create some extra mailboxes: user.name.sent user.name.drafts user.name.templates While we were using netscape 4, during the first login it would subscribe to all existing mailboxes, now that we've switched to mozilla it doesn't, so I have to presubscribe these mailboxes while creating the user. The only way I found is a hack I'm not really happy with: SUBFILE=/var/lib/imap/user/$initial/$LOGIN.sub echo -e user.$LOGIN.sent\011 $SUBFILE echo -e user.$LOGIN.plantillas\011 $SUBFILE echo -e user.$LOGIN.borradores\011 $SUBFILE chown cyrus.mail $SUBFILE chmod 600 $SUBFILE Is there a better way? TIA -- Luca Olivetti Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/ Tel. +34 93 5883004 Fax +34 93 5883007
