Cyrus IMAP + postfix

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2004, 14:24 +0800 schrieb Ow Mun Heng:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:58, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > Ow Mun Heng schrieb:
> > > I must be daft, I installed my new Home-Net-Server w FC3 (P133 w/128MB
> > > RAM) and opened up Port 25 via DynDNS (I checked, it's not an open
> > > relay, I did the 20 point check via abuse.net IIRC)
> > > 
> > > Everything works. Then I realised that I don't have a POP/IMAP server
> > > set up. I know I can use dovecot and it works out of the box, but I
> > > wanted to try Cyrus and also switch to postfix (just bought the O'Reilly
> > > book - Postfix - The Definitive Guide, now at Pg 50 of 250) but I'm
> > > looking for an quick Howto to get up and running.
> > > 
> > > Anyone has any suggestions? (eg: Personal HowTos)
> 
> > IMHO, postfix is in FC3 (in FC2 it was) prepared for cyrus. So all you 
> > have to do is installing postfix and ALL packages for cyrus:
> > 
> > cyrus-sasl-devel
> > cyrus-imapd-utils
> > cyrus-sasl
> > cyrus-sasl-plain
> > cyrus-imapd
> > cyrus-sasl-md5
> > perl-Cyrus
> 
> DONE.
> > 
> > ...plus postfix, of course.
> DONE.
> 
> > 
> > after installation, configure postfix secure..(seems you already did this)
> 
> Actually I didn't. I was using Sendmail before this. But I managed to
> get postfix up and running last night. It even passed the relay test.
> 
> 
> > do arrange forwarding of e-mail from users in /etc/passwd to their 
> > mailboxes. 
> 
> Email receiving is Not a problem based on the existing Sendmail
> configuration. Real Users on the box can receive emails from the Net and
> get it delivered to their /var/spool/mail/username folder (mbox).

using your existing sendmail-config will always deliver to you mbox you
used before. if you still want to use sendmail instead of postfix, you
have to tell sendmail, that it has to deliver to cyrus. There are many
threads from Alexander Dalloz telling how this works good. When i
installed postfix on my server, i havn't had to change anything,
delivery was right from the beginning.

> 
> I then tried to get cyrus up, got it configured for IMAPS but upon
> configuring evolution on my laptop to point to the IMAP server, it
> connects indefinately. Could it be because (I'm daft again?) the folder
> is a mbox folder??

you have to configure evolution just using an imap-server (Server-Type:
imap instead of mbox)

> 
> 
> > You can add them either in /etc/postfix/aliases or 
> > /etc/postfix/virtual. My prefer is virtual (historically ;-)) After 
> > adding them into virtual, do postmap virtual, this creates your 
> > virtual-database. If you did in aliases, do postmap aliases or 
> > newaliases aliases (always in /etc/postfix)...now you have your delivery 
> > database. Make sure, if using virtual, you have in /etc/postfix main.cf 
> > activated:
> > for aliases: 'alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases'
> > for virtual: 'virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual' and 'alias_maps='
> > 
> > now, lets create some mailboxes. call as user cyrus the program like 
> > this: 'cyradm localhost' this connects directly to cyrus on your 
> > localhost. login with your cyrus-password (there has to be a password 
> > specified...)
> > 
> > you'll get a prompt: hostname >
> > 
> > create your mailbox like this: cm user.username
> > the user. is needed this is the folders default. if you don't put user. 
> > in front of your username, cyrus will (in standard-config) not find the 
> > mailbox at all. so perhaps, your username will be something like this:
> > 'user.OwMunHeng'
> > 
> > make a ? on the prompt, you will get more out of this.
> > 
> > I think, this should make your cyrus basically working.
> > 
> > Let me know, if problems occur.
> 
> Problems did occur. I'm not sure what but I intend to find out. Thanks
> for youe walkthrough. I'll look more closely into it once I get home
> from work.
> 
> 
> > 
> > HTH
> > Roger
> 
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
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> 
> 
Roger