On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 07:58:30PM -0500, Daniel Bromberg wrote:
> I'm puzzling over the various discussions on using Courier's maildrop as
> the local agent with Postfix. It plays well enough, but not...great. First
> its error messages are less than precise but you can get used to what they
> mean after a while. (I need it for SpamAssassin auto-directory-sorting.)
E-Mail Account provisioning for a virtual user requires a variety of
steps to be taken, to create authentication records, mail-store location
records, ... One of those steps should be the creation of the mailstore
directory. If you create the directory when you create the account, you
don't run into hassles trying to create on the fly.
> The virtual users are created with Horde/PHP, so it's awkward and feels
> wrong to have PHP call a shell script to create mail directories whenever a
> new user is created through the Horde admin page. I feel like Horde should
> live entirely in MySQL and only needs to communicate with mail via its
> built-in IMAP client.
Provisioning the email directory can be an IPC request to a directory
provisioning service, ideally the IMAP server supports an operation
to create the store for a user whose meta-data is present in the database.
--
Viktor.
