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

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:36, Feizhou wrote:
> 
>>>I know it can do it as you log in, but in this case the mail delivery
>>>may come first.  I'd assume you'd add a user to the network
>>>authentication system and send off a welcome email. And I don't think
>>>procmail will auto-create a maildir even if the home directory
>>>was already there.
>>>
>>
>>I don't see why the network authentication system cannot create the 
>>Maildir when the user is added.
> 
> 
> Chances are good that there is already a usable network authentication
> system containing the users and passwords and fair that the person
> who manages it knows nothing about this mail server.
> 

Don't you love integration?