[SlugBug] Adding a new mailbox by SSH

[James Wallbank]

Hello Bruno,

Thanks for the "maildirmake" tip - simple and effective!

Real mailboxes on the system seem to be listed in the "virtual" file, 
set to redirect to themselves... does that make sense? Typical lines 
might read:

user at domain.com 	user at domain.com
trash at domain.com	trash at domain.com
@domain.com		trash at domain.com
elsewhere at domain.com	webmailbox at gmail.com

I take this to mean that there are two "real" pop3 mailboxes, "user" and 
  "trash", and that anything directed to 
anystring-other-than-user at domain.com ends up in the trash mailbox. 
Meanwhile, a mail to user at domain.com ends up in the mail box "user" and 
a mail to "elsewhere at domain.com" ends up in a gmail account. Is that 
roughly right? I'm unclear what 'vmailbox' is.

The server has no /etc/authlib, but /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/ looks 
promising. Can I find out the authentication method from these contents?

authdaemonrc       imapd.dist      pop3d.cnf       quotawarnmsg.example
authdaemonrc.dist  imapd-ssl       pop3d.dist      shared
imapd              imapd-ssl.dist  pop3d-ssl       shared.tmp
imapd.cnf          pop3d           pop3d-ssl.dist

Thanks again,

James
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Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Wed 06-Sep-2006 at 12:27 +0100, James Wallbank wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have to confess some considerable ignorance here! How do I add a new 
>> mailbox to a virtual host on a server running postfix?
> 
> 
>> * I can run 'postmap virtual' to make the new virtual.db which postfix 
>> uses.
> 
> 
> 'virtual' is used for virtual_alias_maps, ie. redirecting mail.  You 
> need to use 'vmailbox' virtual_mailbox_maps to deliver to virtual 
> mailboxes.
> 
>> * I can make appropriate diredctories in 
>> /home/virtualdomain.com/system/mail/users/
> 
> 
> Use 'maildirmake' for this.
> 
>> 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!
> 
> 
> It depends entirely on how courier authentication is setup for these 
> virtual mailboxes.  Are the user details in a mysql or ldap database?  
> On my small-ish system I use a text database (called userdb).
> 
> Courier uses an authentication service called 'authdaemon' to manage all 
> this stuff, you need to look to see how it is configured, usually in 
> /etc/authlib
>