NAME

       MkUsers - Batch creating multiple XMail accounts

SYNOPSIS

       MkUsers [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  line utility enable You to create user accounts structure by giving it a formatted list of
       users parameters or a formatted text file.  This utility can be also  used  to  create  a  random  number
       users, that is useful for me for testing the server performance.

OPTIONS

       -a numusers
              Number of users to create in auto-mode.

       -d domain
              Domain name in auto-mode.

       -f inputFile
              Input file name {stdin}.

       -u username
              Radix user name in auto-mode.

       -r rootdir
              Mail root path {./}.

       -s mboxsize
              Mailbox maximum size {10000}.

       -i useridbase
              Base user id {1}.

       -m     Create Maildir boxes.

       -h     show help message.

USAGE

       Input file format is

       domain;username;password;real-name;homepage[NEWLINE]

       where a character # as the very first one in a line is used to comment the entire line.

       If  a  file  mailusers.tab  already exist in mail root path MkUsers exit without overwriting the existing
       copy.  This protect You by accidental overwriting of Your file when playing  inside  the  real  MAIL_ROOT
       directory.   So  if  You want to setup the root directory ( -r ... ) as MAIL_ROOT You must delete by hand
       the existing file.  If You setup the root directory ( -r ... ) as MAIL_ROOT You MUST have  XMail  stopped
       before running MkUsers.  Existing files and directories will be not overwrited by MkUsers so You can keep
       Your  users  db  into  the  formatted text file ( or generate it by a database dump for example ) and run
       MkUsers to create the structure. Remeber that You've to add new domains in domains.tab file by hand.

NOTES

       MkUsers is intended as a bulk-mode utility, not to create single users coz for this need  CtrlClnt  (  or
       other GUI/Web configuration utilities ) is better suited.

SEE ALSO

       CtrlClnt(1), XMail(8).

AUTHOR

       XMail  program  was written by Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>.  This manual page was written by
       Radim Kolar <hsn@cybermail.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                 March  12, 2002                                      MKUSERS(8)