RE: adding users
Hi- note that your reply went just to me, not the list. what do you mean by "qmailadmin for that domain"? try: ezmlm-list /path/to/ezmlm/list to get a dump of the subscribed addresses. --Pete Ok guys that was helpfull as can be that saved me tons O time. I did ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list address_list and then it started processing the list and only took a few minutes. But for some reason none of the addresses show up in qmailadmin for that domain -Original Message- From: Peter Cavender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adding users I have done this a few times with a shell script. If you have all the addresses in a text file address_list: #!/bin/sh for foo in `cat address_list`; do ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list $foo done Too wasteful since it calls ezmlm-sub thousands of times. Just ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list address_list Mate COOL! I did not know it could do that, but am glad I know now. Thanks, Mate!
Re: Adding users...
Set up the /etc/skel directory as you would want the default user's home directory. Also, consider the "newusers" command available in Red Hat 6. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Steve Peace wrote: I am a relative newbie to qmail. I have setup a RedHat 6.0 server running qmail. After a couple of days I finally got everything working. It all workings 100% perfect for what I need it to do. I only have one problem, I am setting this up for my employer and need to create about 200 email accounts. I can create each account manually by using the adduser command, set each password, login as the user and run maildirmake, edit the assign file and run qmail-newu. I have tried to run the qmail-pw2u file, but it seems to hang my box. There has to be a faster way to create users. I would love to look into it more myself, but I have a boss that is gettin rather fidgety and wants his email by yesterday. Any help would be greatly appreciated. S. Peace -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding users...
At 10:58 10/04/2000 -0400, Steve Peace wrote: I am a relative newbie to qmail. I have setup a RedHat 6.0 server running qmail. After a couple of days I finally got everything working. It all workings 100% perfect for what I need it to do. I only have one problem, I am setting this up for my employer and need to create about 200 email accounts. I can create each account manually by using the adduser command, set each password, login as the user and run maildirmake, edit the assign file and run qmail-newu. I have tried to run the qmail-pw2u file, but it seems to hang my box. There has to be a faster way to create users. I would love to look into it more myself, but I have a boss that is gettin rather fidgety and wants his email by yesterday. Any help would be greatly appreciated. For 200 usernames it is better NOT to use system account (/etc/passwd) just make it virtual check www.inter7.com/vpopmail for your reference, and you *will* be very satisfied. Thanks to inter7.com ;) --- AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)
RE: Adding users...
Set upyour skeleton directory so it copies the appropriate maildir folders when you create a new user. Go to the mailinglist archives and search for skeleton. -Original Message-From: Steve Peace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Adding users... I am a relative newbie to qmail. I have setup a RedHat 6.0 server running qmail. After a couple of days I finally got everything working. It all workings 100% perfect for what I need it to do. I only have one problem, I am setting this up for my employer and need to create about 200 email accounts. I can create each account manually by using the adduser command, seteach password, login as the user and run maildirmake, edit the assign file and run qmail-newu. I have tried to run the qmail-pw2u file, but it seems to hang my box. There has to be a faster way to create users. I would love to look into it more myself, but I have a boss that is gettin rather fidgety and wants his email by yesterday. Any help would be greatly appreciated. S. Peace
Re: Adding Users when Installing (NEWBIE)
alias and qmaild these are users needed for qmail to run. the INSTALL.ids should hve been gone to /var/qmail/doc if you do not find it, i will mail them to you directly. and: the line "qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true" is an /etc/passwd line and not /etc/group a.j Ursprüngliche Nachricht Am 1/25/00, 9:27:53 PM, schrieb Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Adding Users when Installing (NEWBIE): Hello, I am installing qmail on a box with RedHat 6.1 as the OS. I am following LQW's instructions. I have downloaded the source for qmail, ucspi, and daemontools. I am to the section where I create users and groups, but I am confused (VERY confused). I cannot find the "INSTALL.ids" file. Nor do I understand the lines of the script: pw useradd alias -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /nonexistent pw useradd qmaild -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent Am I to substitute the username somewhere in the lines above? The instructions say to edit /etc/group if INSTALL.ids is not installed. OK. I find that, but I do not understand: qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true Where is the user name located in this line? Am I missing something in the instructions? Thanks for any help, I really, really appreciate it. By the way--I am installing this on a test machine, just like the instructions suggest. :) Thanks, Joe Millay
Re: Adding Users when Installing (NEWBIE)
Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing qmail on a box with RedHat 6.1 as the OS. I am following LQW's instructions. I have downloaded the source for qmail, ucspi, and daemontools. I am to the section where I create users and groups, but I am confused (VERY confused). I cannot find the "INSTALL.ids" file. If you followed LWQ, at this point, INSTALL.ids would be in /usr/local/src/qmail/qmail-1.03/INSTALL.ids. Nor do I understand the lines of the script: pw useradd alias -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /nonexistent pw useradd qmaild -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent Those are an *example* for FreeBSD. You're not using FreeBSD. Am I to substitute the username somewhere in the lines above? No. You're to extract the Linux "useradd" lines from INSTALL.ids and execute them as-is. The instructions say to edit /etc/group if INSTALL.ids is not installed. No, they say to edit /etc/group and /etc/passwd *if* your system isn't covered in INSTALL.ids. OK. I find that, but I do not understand: qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true Where is the user name located in this line? Am I missing something in the instructions? What you're missing is that the instructions need to be followed. At the point where you were unable to locate INSTALL.ids, you should have stopped, thought, and asked for help. Instead, you plowed on. BTW, the username in the above entry is "qmaild". The whole point of this section of the instructions is to set up certain users and groups that qmail itself uses--not to add end users, as you seem to believe. Thanks for any help, I really, really appreciate it. By the way--I am installing this on a test machine, just like the instructions suggest. :) Good. Very good. :-) -Dave
