On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Hamish wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
I have found that there seems to be a way of using one user for all the virtual mailboxes with courier - is this possible with cyrus? IE one mailbox which dishes out virtual mailboxes.* Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1119 15:19]:
Hello everyone
Could someone please point me in the right direction? I would like to use virtual mailboxes for users. Username, pass, aliases etc are stored in ldap and I would like to be able to just use this to store user information.
Cyrus authentication can work that way, but unless you want to store mail in LDAP you need a mailbox created in cyrus for the ldap entry as well.
i.e. to create a mail user
1. ldapadd a user/password pair
2. run 'cyradm' and then 'cm user.username'
I want to be able to administer users in ldap, and not have to then change passwords etc anywhere else, so cyrus would have to check the user against ldap.
Just to be clear, you have to create the mailbox in cyrus so that mail can be received. You'll also have to delete the mailbox in cyrus when you remove the user. You can have cyrus authenticate against any number of sources, including ldap.
Cyrus does not "read" ldap to figure out what mailboxes exist on the system, so you're stuck with an extra step to create the mailbox. However, you do not need to make a separate password in cyrus.
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