Re: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: robin@socha.net
Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Sorry Business manners have nothing to do whether you pay or not. Right -- it's simple professionalism. It doesn't take much to be polite. You don't have to reply if you don't want to. -Stephen-
Re: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: robin@socha.net
Hi All - I apologize for overlooking the fact that this is not a linux system admin mailing list. Anyway, thanks for all the help. I am not running any mail server; being a new bee, am just experimenting with various options available to configure qmail with other add-ons. - Original Message - From: Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:11 PM Subject: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:09:43PM +0530, KK wrote: Can I create dynamic system users using the command useradd from inside a perl script/java servlet which need not run as root? I suppose that only root has the privilege to create system users. Is there a way around this? I presume that your are well aware of the fact that this has nothing to do whatsoever with qmail. If you are too incompetent to use a search engine, why are you running a mail server? RTFM: man 5 sudoers: Cmnd_Alias USERADD=/sbin/useradd www ALL=NOPASSWD: USERADD Any suggestions/help is appreciated. http://learn.to/edit_messages/ - before your EVER submit mail to a technical mailing list again. -- Robin S. Socha - Your Worst Network Nightmare(tm). `In Germany, they are not referred to as network administrators. They prefer to be called Sons Of The Third Reich.' (Kate: www.katewerk.com)
RE: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: robin@socha.net
If you are too incompetent to use a search engine, why are you running a mail server? I am just wondering if hurdling insults at the first opportunity is the direction this list is heading towards. What happened to common decency and business manners? Kirti Kirt S. Bajwa GM/CTO TIB, Inc. Mountain City, TN 37683-0049 Tel: (423) 727-3001 Fax: (423) 727-3002 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: KK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:33 AM To: Robin S. Socha Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All - I apologize for overlooking the fact that this is not a linux system admin mailing list. Anyway, thanks for all the help. I am not running any mail server; being a new bee, am just experimenting with various options available to configure qmail with other add-ons. - Original Message - From: Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:11 PM Subject: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:09:43PM +0530, KK wrote: Can I create dynamic system users using the command useradd from inside a perl script/java servlet which need not run as root? I suppose that only root has the privilege to create system users. Is there a way around this? I presume that your are well aware of the fact that this has nothing to do whatsoever with qmail. If you are too incompetent to use a search engine, why are you running a mail server? RTFM: man 5 sudoers: Cmnd_Alias USERADD=/sbin/useradd www ALL=NOPASSWD: USERADD Any suggestions/help is appreciated. http://learn.to/edit_messages/ - before your EVER submit mail to a technical mailing list again. -- Robin S. Socha - Your Worst Network Nightmare(tm). `In Germany, they are not referred to as network administrators. They prefer to be called Sons Of The Third Reich.' (Kate: www.katewerk.com)
How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: robin@socha.net
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:09:43PM +0530, KK wrote: Can I create dynamic system users using the command useradd from inside a perl script/java servlet which need not run as root? I suppose that only root has the privilege to create system users. Is there a way around this? I presume that your are well aware of the fact that this has nothing to do whatsoever with qmail. If you are too incompetent to use a search engine, why are you running a mail server? RTFM: man 5 sudoers: Cmnd_Alias USERADD=/sbin/useradd www ALL=NOPASSWD: USERADD Any suggestions/help is appreciated. http://learn.to/edit_messages/ - before your EVER submit mail to a technical mailing list again. -- Robin S. Socha - Your Worst Network Nightmare(tm). `In Germany, they are not referred to as network administrators. They prefer to be called Sons Of The Third Reich.' (Kate: www.katewerk.com)
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
Thanks to all for giving quite a no. of solutions to the following pbl. One more query though. Can I create dynamic system users using the command useradd from inside a perl script/java servlet which need not run as root? I suppose that only root has the privilege to create system users. Is there a way around this? Any suggestions/help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. KK [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: KK To: Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:32 PM Subject: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services Hello Everyone - I am a new entrant to the qmail world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named joe? If yes, how can I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?
How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
Hello Everyone - I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in asrootand using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED]without creating asystem user named "joe"? If yes, howcan I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this? I hope I have explainedmy problem in the right sense and am able to put acrossthe issue at hand.Any (and in fact all) replies/help is highly appreciated. Hoping to get some replies from the techie gurus. Thanks kind regards. KK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
* KK [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010719 11:39]: Turn off HTML and wrap your lines properly. Your message looks like shit and is 4x too big. I am a new entrant to the qmail world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. So you're using an outdated and insecure OS along with the IMAP server from hell. Good luck. 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? Not at all. Hotmail and similar sites uses CGI scripts to create the account. Check http://www.inter7.com/vqregister/ 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? Check http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ God bless inter7.com.
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote: Hello Everyone - I am a new entrant to the qmail world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly possible. Even Microsoft does not have this feature. If this is not what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem. *screaming. 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named joe? If yes, how can I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this? Lots of options available here. Start with 'man qmail-users'. Look into the 'vpopmail' package, or its alternative (whose name escapes me at this moment). System accounts are not a requirement, and there are tons of ways to attack the problem. -- Greg White
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
At 21:53 19.07.2001 +0530, you wrote: Hello Everyone - I am a new entrant to the qmail world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? check out www.qmail.org, there are several solutions... 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named joe? If yes, how can I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this? see 1. there are web-administration solutions to do this I hope I have explained my problem in the right sense and am able to put across the issue at hand. Any (and in fact all) replies/help is highly appreciated. Hoping to get some replies from the techie gurus. Thanks kind regards. KK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
* Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010719 12:58]: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly possible. Even Microsoft does not have this feature. If this is not what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem. Eh. You're in Unixland, not in Redmon. Sure it could be done. man procmail maildrop if you're into deviant sexual practices. Hmmm... come to think of it, man dotqmail would even do. Wicked.
