[clug] Auto intro email generation

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:29:18PM +1000, John Fletcher wrote:
> Does anyone know a nice way of automatically sending an email to a user when
> their user account is first generated?
> 
> Like "Welcome, thanks for choosing us" etc.
> 
> We are using cyrus IMAP but each user has a unix account on the machine too.

Debian's adduser supports an adduser.local script for performing
site-specfic user creation stuff.

I also believe that one of the Maildir supporting IMAP servers (could be
Courier) supports plonking a file directly into a user's Maildir, rather
than mailing it to them.

regards

Andrew