Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:19 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>IMHO, /etc/skel/Maildir belongs in etcskel. >> >>Buchan > > > I'm not sure what you mean by this but on my systems that Iset up for clients > this is exactly how I get maildirs all over the place. It works wonderfully. > I even used to have a versoin of the qmail rpm's floating arround that I did > that simply included /etc/skel/Maildir in it. > > For postfix or any other app doing mail it would be just as easy. >
Yes, but by the time a new admin has figured it out (think one of our winbind setups where user accouts are created on-the-fly by samba as users connect to the server), he may well have thousands of accounts which are missing a maildir, and he is going to spend the next month (being an MSCE with no scripting experience) making Maildir's for users once he implements an IMAP server, and all the users complain about authentication errors. Of course, the mail (IMAP) servers should have an option to attempt to create this directory if necessary (almost like pam_mkhomedir). Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
