New accounts can be added in one of two ways: by creating a new account or (for popstore only) copying an existing account. The former is done with the add command while the latter with the copy command. Regardless of the method chosen, when a new account is added a name and password to associate with the account should be chosen. This is the name and password which the owner of the account must use in order to access messages stored for the account. Specify -flags=pwd_elsewhere to create the account with an externally stored password (e.g., an /etc/passwd password). Optionally, account quotas and an ownership field identifying the owner of the account can also be specified. Quotas not specified will be copied from the default account.

See Section 1.3.1 for a discussion of the name space allowed for account usernames.

For instance, suppose that Jane Doe is to be given the account jdoe with the password SecRet. The command to add the account would then be

popstore> add jdoe -password=SecRet -owner="Jane Doe" popstore> show jdoe Username: jdoe Owner: Jane Doe Group: Store Type: popstore Usage flags: Site-defined: Last pwd change: Fri Nov 15 12:02:22 2012 Last connect: No time recorded Last disconnect: No time recorded Total connect time: 0 00:00:00 Total connections: 0 Past block days: 0 Last billing: Fri Nov 15 12:02:22 2012 Message count: 1 (1 total messages received) Quota used: 0.71 Kbytes Quota: 2048.00 Kbytes Overdraft: 20.00 Kbytes

Note that POP passwords are case sensitive.

It is important to note that when the popstore was configured, default account settings were specified. These settings are kept in the form of a default account named default. Whenever an account is added with the add command, the popstore actually copies the default account to the new account thereby using the default account's settings as the basis for the new account.

Copying an existing popstore account with the copy command also creates a new account. In the example below, the new account doe is created by copying the account ariel:

popstore> show ariel Username: ariel Owner: Tempest Ariel Group: Store Type: popstore Usage flags: Site-defined: Last pwd change: Fri Oct 18 09:12:23 2012 Last connect: Fri Nov 15 16:09:38 2012 Last disconnect: Fri Nov 15 16:09:39 2012 Total connect time: 0 00:10:03 Total connections: 145 Past block days: 123953 Last billing: Fri Oct 18 09:12:23 2012 Message count: 0 (189 total messages received) Quota used: 0.00 Kbytes Quota: 102400.00 Kbytes Overdraft: 10.00 Kbytes popstore> copy ariel doe -password=secret -owner="John Doe" popstore> show doe Username: doe Owner: John Doe Group: Store Type: popstore Usage flags: Site-defined: Last pwd change: Fri Nov 15 13:23:18 2012 Last connect: No time recorded Last disconnect: No time recorded Total connect time: 0 00:00:00 Total connections: 0 Past block days: 0 Last billing: Fri Nov 15 13:23:18 2012 Message count: 0 (0 total messages received) Quota used: 0.00 Kbytes Quota: 102400.00 Kbytes Overdraft: 10.00 Kbytes

Note that when an account is copied to make a new account, the new account does not inherit the messages or accounting information of the original account.

6.3 Listing accounts

popstore> show -brief Quota Message Quota used Username (kbytes) Count (kbytes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- crw 33333.00 0 0.00 david 102400.00 0 0.00 *dan 33333.00 0 0.00 default 1024.00 0 0.00 kevin 40960.00 0 0.00 kristin 10240.00 0 0.00 pekie 40960.00 0 0.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Note: privileged users are flagged with an asterisk

In the above output, an asterisk is displayed by each account which has the management privilege. The -brief switch, causes a brief listing to be generated. Omitting that switch generates a much more detailed listing.

When a username parameter is specified, wild cards can be used:

popstore> show -brief d* Quota Message Quota used Username (kbytes) Count (kbytes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- david 102400.00 0 0.00 *dan 33333.00 0 0.00 default 1024.00 0 0.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Note: privileged users are flagged with an asterisk

As discussed in Section 6.15.2, the -format switch of the show command can be used to generate custom listings. Section 6.11 describes how to use the -forwardings switch to display mail forwardings.