Package: cyrus21-imapd Followup-For: Bug #260833 I realise that no one upstream wants the autocreate patch, and that it's unlikely to be included in Debian either. So after a little bit of research, I decided to work my way around the problem by writing a script that pulls all the users out of LDAP and creates them in Cyrus for you.
The script attached is designed to be able to run from cron if necessary. It can also report users who are in LDAP but not Cyrus (and vice versa). More info in the comments of the script itself (including the Debian perl libs required). Feel free to include this in the contribs directory for cyrus-* if you wish. I'm still working on this script, so it's not very (internally) pretty. I may even decide to add support for DBI sources down the track, but patches are always welcome.
syncldap2cyrus.pl
Description: Perl program
