On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, joe ritter wrote: > I wanted to see how people were doing any kind of auto > account provisioning using Cyrus IMAP . We currently > do not have any automated system for adding users or > deleteing them etc. We use a combination of Cyrus and > squirrelmail for our users. I know some posters on > this list are from an ISP sytle environment and I > wanted to find out what was working > opensource/freeware, homegrown scripts, web font ends > etc?
My site (a university with ~20K users) uses a suite of locally-written perl wrapped around the Net::IMAP module. There's a shell frontend for helpdesk staff to manually create staff mailboxes, and a bulk-processing frontend which picks up batches of students to add or remove as provided by our student management system (while only the latter counts as auto-provisioning, the common backend simplifies manual operations too). As well as mailbox creation the scripts do things like LDAP updates and delivery of standard welcome messages - it's highly site-specific and more than a little crufty, but it does the job for us. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
