[SlugBug] Adding a new mailbox by SSH

[James Wallbank]

Hello All,

I have to confess some considerable ignorance here! How do I add a new 
mailbox to a virtual host on a server running postfix?

This problem came about when I started to customise the copnfiguration 
of our Fasthosts virtual server, and thanks to the complexities of the 
new virtual domains I need to add, I broke the GUI control panel! 
Therefore, I have to do all config activities by SSH now.

* I can see how to edit /etc/postfix/virtual

* I can run 'postmap virtual' to make the new virtual.db which postfix uses.

* I can make appropriate diredctories in 
/home/virtualdomain.com/system/mail/users/ (i.e. newuser/Maildir/cur/, 
newuser/Maildir/tmp/ and newuser/Maildir/tmp/) and I can touch a file 
newuser/Maildir/courierpop3dsizelist, which by the look of things logs 
or indexes new mails.

However, while all this activity may be fun, it's pretty long-winded 
just to make a new mailbox, and I suspect there's a command to do this 
all for me.

Also, at no point yet have I set a password for the new mailbox - so 
clearly it won't work if I actually want to read the mail I've just 
started accumulating!

So, any ideas how to do this simple task? Note that at the moment there 
are several functioning mail boxes on the system that *aren't* related 
to a username in /etc/passwd - so 'useradd newuser' and 'passwd newuser' 
isn't the answer!

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,

James
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