Dovecot maildirmake auth

A very specific question!

maildirmake is a command-line tool that comes with Dovecot, a popular open-source IMAP and POP3 server. It's used to create a mail directory for a user, which is where Dovecot stores the user's email messages.

auth is an option that can be used with maildirmake to specify the authentication mechanism to use when creating the mail directory.

Here's the basic syntax:

maildirmake [-a auth] [-c config_file] [-d directory] [-m mode] [-o owner] [-g group] [-p permissions] [-s suffix] username

Where:

• -a auth specifies the authentication mechanism to use. Possible values are:
  • plain: Use plain text authentication (default).
  • cram-md5: Use CRAM-MD5 authentication.
  • digest-md5: Use Digest-MD5 authentication.
  • gssapi: Use GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication.
• username is the username for which you want to create the mail directory.

Here's an example:

maildirmake -a cram-md5 user1

This would create a mail directory for user user1 using CRAM-MD5 authentication.

Note that you need to have Dovecot installed and configured on your system for maildirmake to work. Additionally, you may need to specify the location of the Dovecot configuration file using the -c option, like this:

maildirmake -a cram-md5 -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf user1