I run an ISP also. It would be better to allow a command line option to the executable. The reason I say this is that sometimes you want the letter, sometimes you don't. We happen to put a default letter in the user's home directory Maildir to welcome them, however the hosting customers are the ones that got annoyed at getting the welcome letters. They didn't want each time they create an email account for their domain to get any welcome letter. So the welcome letter would be on a per domain basis. It would be nice if qmailadmin could get a setting that stated if new users get a message, and allow the postmaster to construct that message on a per-domain basis. We just put the letter into the /etc/skel default home directory so that all new unix users get the welcome letter.
Brian > It could be a compile option (like --enable-welcomemsg). We are an ISP and > use it for new customers. We have a nice letter typed up that explains all > the cool things that we have to offer that they wouldn't know about > otherwise. Also, when we are setting up someone's email, it is nice to have > an email waiting to be received so that you know it worked. > > Trey > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Kolaci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:38 AM > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Re: welcome message > > > > > > If you're going to put this in the distribution, make > > sure that you have to select an option to have the mail > > delivered. I'm sure many people would *not* want this > > message in their INBOX. We used to do this an about 85% > > of our customers complained, so it was removed. > > > > Brian > > > > > Hi Trey, > > > > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:56:54 -0600 > > > "Trey Nolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >>> Is there a way to set a "welcome" message that is sent when a > > > >>> postmaster creates an e-mail account? > > > > > > >> Modify vpopmail sources for "vadddomain" not only creating > "Maildir" > > > >> but copying an e-mail to 'Maildir/new' too. > > > > > > > This sure is a pain to do every time you update vpopmail. I sure > hope > > > > this feature gets accepted into the distribution one day.... > > > > > > Write the code, write it good, stable and secure, and submit it. > > > Maybe it's merged with vpopmail-core and no "rewrite" will be > necessary. > > > -- > > > Peter > > > > >
