using Cyrus was Re: [CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 18:24:23 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:04, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> >
> > On Centos the other reasonable choice would be to configure procmail
> > to default to deliver in maildir format (should work for either
> > sendmail or postfix) and Dovecot to expect that format, and use
> > authconfig/pam to authenticate however you want. I think you'd have
> > to create the home directories ahead of time though, and delete them
> > when the account goes away.
>
> PAM can auto-create home directories via pam_mkhomedir.so, which is
> included with CentOS. Auto-creation is typically associated with login
> activity (/etc/pam.d/login), but I wouldn't be surprised if it could
> be associated with Dovecot IMAP/POP access. The README is available
> via CVS:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/modules/pam_mkhomedir/
I know it can do it as you log in, but in this case the mail delivery
may come first. I'd assume you'd add a user to the network
authentication system and send off a welcome email. And I don't think
procmail will auto-create a maildir even if the home directory
was already there.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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