On Friday 07 February 2003 04:20 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:19 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
> >>IMHO, /etc/skel/Maildir belongs in etcskel.
> >>
> >>Buchan
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this but on my systems that Iset up for
> > clients this is exactly how I get maildirs all over the place. It works
> > wonderfully. I even used to have a versoin of the qmail rpm's floating
> > arround that I did that simply included /etc/skel/Maildir in it.
> >
> > For postfix or any other app doing mail it would be just as easy.
>
> Yes, but by the time a new admin has figured it out (think one of our
> winbind setups where user accouts are created on-the-fly by samba as
> users connect to the server), he may well have thousands of accounts
> which are missing a maildir, and he is going to spend the next month
> (being an MSCE with no scripting experience) making Maildir's for users
> once he implements an IMAP server, and all the users complain about
> authentication errors.
>
> Of course, the mail (IMAP) servers should have an option to attempt to
> create this directory if necessary (almost like pam_mkhomedir).
>
> Buchan
Not sure I understand are you saying when samba creates and account it does
not use skel for setting up the home directory?
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