On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:03 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:42 pm, Ken Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is something we built into vpopmail for sites like yours. > > > > Use mysql on the email server. Have the billing system > > insert an entry in the vpopmail table, leaving the directory > > field blank. vpopmail will automatically create the users > > directory and update the database when any program > > tries to deliver mail to the user, or authenticate as the user. > > > > If the mysql connection fails, write the user information to > > a flat file. Then have a cron job check for updates to the > > file and send them over to the mysql server when it becomes > > available. > > That's neat. In which version was this feature added?
I'm not sure. A couple years ago at least. Another alternative is to use the new vpopmail daemon running under tcpserver. It uses simple text commands. Authenticate, then add/delete users, or whatever. Ken
