On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:15:56AM +1100, Stephen Fischer wrote:
> I would prefer not to have sendmail do it, because it's a larger drain on the
> resources and because it's not really sendmail's job to handle these things
> (as I understand it). The reason for this is because at times the process
> that informs us about new users takes some time, so the users may be
> distributing the mail address before we are told about it. As a result, we
> could be bouncing important mail, which is not politically popular.
It would make sense if the system could check that if a user could log in, and
a message comes for them, that their mailbox be created. In my case, I'd just
ask NIS if user existed and had a valid shell ...
I smell a patch to write some day. :)
