On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Timo Veith wrote: > > is MS Outlook or OE or any other MUA able to create the mailbox > and if yes how?
Able to? Sure. Implemented? Not likely.
autocreatequota was mostly a hack that CMU used to allow users to
transition themselves from our legacy mail system to Cyrus many years ago. To do so, we had a special client that did the create (and copied
the mail) for the users.
I have stumbled on the fact that a user can create a mailbox automatically using Outlook Express (version 6). Authentication succeeded because the user was in the LDAP directory which we use. Outlook Express checked for the existence of the mailbox and then proceeded to create the INBOX, and folders Drafts and Sent Items, using IMAP create commands. The mailbox was created without a quota because autocreatequota was not set in imapd.conf.
This is undesirable for us and I have stopped it happenning by changing the authentication to only succeed if the user has the appropriate mailHost attribute in the LDAP directory (which is set by the IMAP account creation procedure).
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