On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:38 PM, "Greg A. Woods" <woods-cyrus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > A valid point to mailbox creation, but what would delete the mailbox when a student graduates? Dave ---- 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
