At Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:38:31 -0400, Dave McMurtrie <dave64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: Re: murder and autocreate (I know it is not supported) > > What Ken is working on isn't specific to autocreate. Rather, he's > working to integrate IDM into our environment. We need a way for our > identity management system to be able to simply connect to a Cyrus > frontend and issue a create command and have something useful happen. I've never understood this idea of why anything that has anything to do with user management should _ever_ have anything to do with mailbox creation. Mailboxes (i.e. the default first INBOX for every user) should always be created _automatically_ as needed for every valid user. The easiest way to do this is to trust the mail delivery system to have already verified the existence of every authorized mail user. This is quite safe to do because if there is any reason you can't do so then your mail system is broken, by definition, anyway. (i.e. if your MTA cannot be trusted to only accept and to deliver mail for valid users then it will no doubt be generating backscatter and it will be abused by those who do such dastardly things) Why make everything far more complicated than it needs to be? Especially things related to user management? -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP RoboHack <woods@xxxxxxxxxxx> Planix, Inc. <woods@xxxxxxxxxx> Secrets of the Weird <woods@xxxxxxxxx> ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
