[imp] Creating users...

Karl Keyte karl@koft.com
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:18:42 +0000


Understood! Thanks - that's what I needed. I had half an idea that IMP
managed users in the MySQL database tables.

I should be able to take it from that pointer - thanks.

Karl

Rich Lafferty wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:09:59PM +0000, Karl Keyte (karl@koft.com) wrote:
> >
> > However, although the Horde admin. FAQ explains a lot about
> > installation and possible running problems, I can't find any of the
> > basic stuff about managing users.  Stuff like adding users, removing
> > users, tidying up mailboxes, creating forwarding,
>
> None of this has anything to do with IMP; IMP is just an IMAP client
> (like, say, Eudora or Outlook Express) that happens to be written in
> PHP and deployed via the Web.
>
> Managing your users is the same as it would be if you *weren't* using
> IMP; if your IMAP server uses Unix users, add Unix users, if it has
> its own database of users, add to that, and so forth.
>
> I'm not sure what tidying mailboxes is, but I suspect that's something
> that the users do through IMP.
>
> Forwarding is a function of your mail transport agent; most Unix ones
> use a ".forward" file in the user's home directory.
>
>   -Rich
>
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