> Summary: can safely I put mailbox subscriptions for a new user directly > into their .sub file ? > > Hi, > > I am putting together a large cyrus system - 20,000 users - at a UK > college. > > Creation of users need to be automatic, I will get a list of new users > every > day from central admin. Logged in as cyrus I can create the users and > their > mail boxes (drafts, etc) using a perl script, easy. > > The user then needs to be subscribed to their mailboxes. This must be done > logged in as the user - that is hard, I have no way of knowing their > password.
You could try using autocreate from here http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.16/ Simon > > I do notice that the user fred's subscription list is stored in: > > /var/imap/user/f/fred.sub > > Is there any reason why I should not just create that file ? > > Come to that, is there any reason why I should not create the user's > mailbox directly, ie .../users/fred/ and use reconstruct to rebuild > the cyrus.cache, etc files ? > > -- > Alain Williams > > #include <std_disclaimer.h> > > FATHERS-4-JUSTICE - Campaigning for equal rights for parents and the > best interests of our children. See http://www.fathers-4-justice.org >
