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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com