How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[KK]

Hello Everyone -   I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are:   1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)?   2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?   I hope I have explained my problem in the right sense and am able to put across the issue at hand. Any (and in fact all) replies/help is highly appreciated.   Thanks & kind regards.   KK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Associate Netesoft India Ltd. http://www.netesoft.com http://www.netesolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any reviews, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.