I have not done anything like what you are suggesting, but
from what I know about sendmail, it ought to be possible to
create automatic mailboxes. Requires some coding though!
I am little curious to find out why would you want to be
doing such a thing though! It can get you into resource
related troubles (not to mention security nightmares), given
that every mailbox requires that you set aside some space.
I would look at the part where sendmail provides a hook for
mapping the mail ids via "virtusertable". Under sendmail there
is a file called "map.c" where they have the functions for
mapping the in coming mail id to internal id. Along lines of
exiting functions you could create a new one or override an
exiting function and check for existence of current mail id
in the system and if none found create a mailbox and then get
back into sendmail process flow.
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Seva
Stephen Fischer wrote:
> I'm interested in having the deliver program automatically create mailboxes
> when it receives a mail item addressed to an address of the correct format but
> which does not already exist. I found some mail in the archive from people
> asking a similar question but no answers. Is this capability there? If not,
> has anyone implemented something similar?
>
> Software: cyrus imapd 1.6.24, cyrus-sasl-1.5.20/24, sendmail.8.10.1, solaris 8
>
> Format (for reference): [a-z][0-9]{7}
>
> Basically, what we would like to have happen is that the deliver program
> checks the format of the address. If it is invalid, then the message is
> rejected. If it is valid, then it is delivered, creating the mailbox if it
> does not already exist. The first half is easy enough to do with a wrapper
> program that then calls deliver, but the second half seems to be best handled
> by deliver itself.
>
> Thanks for your help/thoughts,
> Stephen
