When you are running a MySQL backend for vpopmail, it is possible to create users simply by adding them directly to the relevant table in MySQL
The user's maildir doesn't get created, but this is not usually a problem, because as soon as a message arrives, or as soon as the user attempts to authenticate, vpopmail will run make_user_dir() and create the maildir on-the-fly. I just noticed a problem with qmailadmin though for these sorts of users who don't have a maildir : If you login to the domain as postmaster, you can see the user's entry, and you can even go in and moduser their settings. So that all works fine. However, if you login to qmailadmin as that user rather than as the postmaster, you immediately get presented an error like this : "file permission error /Maildir/1048573247.qw" Obviously a workaround to force a creation of the user's maildir after inserting them into the MySQL database, but this is not a dead simple thing to do in some circumstances (eg we are inserting records into the MySQL from an ASP scrip running on a Windows 2000 server w/IIS5). I suppose we could send them some sort of "welcome" email, or launch a POP3 auth via perl but such methods seem like a bit of a kludge. Considering that qmailadmin allows the postmaster to moduser these types of "users-without-maildirs", is there any chance that the coding can be changed so that the enduser is also able to get in via qmailadmin without encountering a nasty error? ------------------------------------------------ Michael Bowe (B.App.Sc) Managing Director - Pipeline Internet 96 Pakington Street, Geelong West. VIC. 3218 Tel (03) 5229 7643 Fax (03) 5229 0282 Mobile 0419 242 136 http://www.pipeline.com.au/ ------------------------------------------------
