Bug 119564

Summary:	autocreate mailbox support in cyrus-imapd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike Nerone <mike>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
URL:	http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	ebuild patch to enable autocreate

Description Mike Nerone 2006-01-19 08:55:30 UTC

With a stock cyrus-imapd, adding a mail user is a two-step process:

1. Create the user authentication information in whatever backend authentication system you're using.
2. Use cyradm or some other frontend to manually create the user's mailbox (INBOX) in Cyrus.

The University of Athens provides a commonly-used patch that provides an "autocreate" feature that takes care of step 2 for you when a user first checks his/her mail (or, optionally, when a message arrives for the user).

In the next comment, I'll provide a trivial ebuild patch to cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-r3.ebuild to integrate this patch so that this feature is available to Gentoo users. It uses a USE flag called "autocreate" to enable the patch.

Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-19 08:57:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112912 ***

Comment 2 Mike Nerone 2006-01-19 08:58:12 UTC

Created attachment 77555 [details, diff]
ebuild patch to enable autocreate

This patches cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-r3.ebuild to enable the autocreate patch from http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/

Comment 3 Mike Nerone 2006-01-19 09:01:39 UTC

Wow, that was really fast. I promise I *did* search both "ALL autocreate" and "ALL cyrus-imapd". The first returned "Zarro Boogs" and the second only had two hits. I swear something must have been temporarily jacked with the search. Both produce full results now, though. *blush*