Counting mail accounts on a system

[Scott Elcomb]

Ug.  Fixing one's own message kinda suck as far as etiquette is
concerned I suppose, but still it's sometimes necessary.

On 1/4/07, Scott Elcomb <psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Kihara Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Lets say I need to need to know how many mail accounts exist on  system,
> > how would you do about it? I am thinking of counting directories under
> > /var/spool/mail, but I am not sure if the directory exist after popping all
> > mails. Counting accounts on the system would also not be accurate, since
> > that would include ftp, http users, who just exist virtually. Any suggestion
> > may be appreciated.
>
> Not authoritative by any means (I'm not overly familiar with POP3),
> but if all of your mail users are IMAP users [have user accounts on a
> dedicated mail server (eg, UW-IMAP {using RHL xinetd defaults} and/or
> SHELL=/dev/false)] then any User ID within the range UID 500 to 500+n
> (where n=your number of users) should represent your User-Set.

SHELL=/dev/false should've read /bin/false.

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