On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:54 -0600, John Wade wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > 1 - Is there a way to automatically set a sieve script to new users > > created on a system? > > I believe this is a part of the latest autocreate patch from the > University of Athens. > http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.10/cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-autocreate-0.9.1.diff ---- hmm...looking at the diff, I wondered if that was already in my imapd configuration... # rpm -qa|grep cyrus-imap cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-3.fc3 cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.10-3.fc3 cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.10-3.fc3 cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.10-3.fc3 cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.10-3.fc3
so far so good added to imapd.conf autocreate_sieve_script: /etc/default_sieve_script restarted - cyrus-imapd no complaints - syslog seems happy telnet localhost imap and logged in as jennifer ls -l /var/spool/imap/j/user/jennifer/INBOX and other autocreateinboxfolders are there...(nice feature by the way) ls -l /var/lib/imap/sieve/ - no j no jennifer ;-( OK - so I would have to patch source and re-install I guess... ;-( I may be too lazy to do this and resort to #2 below as it appears that I have to do some scripting anyway... ---- > > 2 - Is there a way to insert sieve scripts without having to type a > > password at the console (for automation)? > > Athough it kind of goes against the Cyrus blackbox mentality, you should > be able to just do the following in a script as the cyrus user. > > 1. Create the user's sieve directory > 2. Copy your script into the directory with a .script extension. > 3. Use sievec to compile the script (i.e. /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/sievec > <scriptname>.script <scriptname>.bc) > 4. Symbolically link the script to make it active: ln -s <scriptname> > default.bc > > We have certainly done these steps during conversions. (Note binary > compilation is only required with the latest versions of Cyrus.) > > Hope this helps, ---- Indeed it has helped - it cut to the quick. Thanks Craig --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
