> En/na Buchan Milne ha escrit: > >> I agree. At present, uw-imap and (IIRC this was done for 9.1) >> courier-imap, if you add a user to the system, their mail works (with >> no further mess). > > that's because uw-imap user database *is* the system database, there's > no way out. cyrus-imapd otoh can manage mailboxes that are separate and > distinct from system users. While one admin can configure things so that > cyrus-imapd uses the system database it doesn't mean that's a sensible > thing to do by default.
Why not? Who is the target market? I would guess the biggest market is SMEs (ie 20-250 users), where chances are they don't have a dedicated mail admin, and chances are he would *prefer* it to work out-the-box as much as possible. An ISP or enterprise configuration is going to be doing many things their own way, but why must using Linux be so difficult? I mean, buy Windows Small Business Edition, and the Mouse Consultant and Solitaire Expert says "See, you don't have to learn system commands, learn how to write scripts, you just join it to your Active directory with 17 clicks, and then any new user has working email, that's why Windows is better for you". Unless there is a GUI tool to make it easy, a sane default configuration should be applied IMHO. But then again, I haven't run cyrus much, but people have enough problems understanding that they have to have a unix and windows password (when they setup samba the first time), and that's something we can't get around at all. Regards, Buchan
