Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Kerin Millar <kerin@×××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] No way to auto subscribe the mail folders.
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:22:39
Message-Id: 1481.10.0.0.99.1101306134.squirrel@10.0.0.99
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] No way to auto subscribe the mail folders. by Wang Penghui
1 > Hi all:
2 >
3 > I have a cyrus-imapd installation. And it contains lots of users.
4 > When i add a new account to cyrus-imapd server. The user who has been
5 > created right now have to subscribe his mail folders mannully. I wonder
6 > that whether or not subscribe the mail folders automatic? I have
7 > searched the web for a long time. But no result. If it could be, how to
8 > implement it?
9 > My cyrus version is 2.2.3
10
11 I use courier-imap so the procedure would probably be different. But I
12 presume that you define a mailbox at the time that you add a new Unix user
13 account. In that case, could you not populate /etc/skel so that the new
14 user account has the correct entries in order to be subscribed to the
15 default folders?
16
17 For example, I have an /etc/skel/.maildir structure. I can achieve the
18 goal by