Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-13 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch We find ourselves in the same situation as the University of Athens: A small percentage of users ever use their Cyrus mailbox. So instead of creating Cyrus mailboxes for all our users, we apply the University of Athens' autocreate patch and rebuild the Debian Cyrus packages: http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/ http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.13/
This patch allows configuring Cyrus to create mailboxes when users login for the first time, or mail arrives for a user without an existing mailbox. We heeded the warning accompanying this patch: Before configuring Cyrus to create mailboxes on message delivery, we configured our MTA to check mail is addressed to a valid user. This prevents potential attackers from flooding Cyrus with invalid mailboxes. We've been manually applying the autocreate patch and rebuilding the Debian Cyrus packages since 2004; the patch has proven quite stable. It doesn't by default change any Cyrus behavior unless one of its configuration options is set. However maintaining modified Debian packages is a bit of overhead and we hope the Debian Cyrus maintainers would consider applying the autocreate patch to the official Debian packages? Thanks for maintaining Cyrus in Debian, Jack -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cyrus-imapd-2.2 depends on: ii cyrus-co 2.2.13-13 Cyrus mail system (common files) ii libasn1- 0.7.2.dfsg.1-10 Libraries for Heimdal Kerberos ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library ii libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-2 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libgssap 0.7.2.dfsg.1-10 Libraries for Heimdal Kerberos ii libkrb5- 0.7.2.dfsg.1-10 Libraries for Heimdal Kerberos ii libroken 0.7.2.dfsg.1-10 Libraries for Heimdal Kerberos ii libsasl2 2.1.22.dfsg1-8 Authentication abstraction library ii libssl0. 0.9.8e-5 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra cyrus-imapd-2.2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
