using Cyrus was Re: Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:27, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
> On Centos the other reasonable choice would be to configure procmail 
> to default to deliver in maildir format (should work for either 
> sendmail or postfix) and Dovecot to expect that format, and use 
> authconfig/pam to authenticate however you want.  I think you'd have 
> to create the home directories ahead of time though, and delete them 
> when the account goes away.

PAM can auto-create home directories via pam_mkhomedir.so, which is 
included with CentOS. Auto-creation is typically associated with login 
activity (/etc/pam.d/login), but I wouldn't be surprised if it could 
be associated with Dovecot IMAP/POP access. The README is available 
via CVS:

   http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/modules/pam_mkhomedir/

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