cyrus-imapd howto

[P.Agenbag]

Although this site does not have specific RPM install instructions, it
is however a very good source for the installation of Cyrus-IMAP and
sendmail. 
I suspect that your problems are from miss-configuration and this will
help:

http://www.entrophy-free.net

Credit to Jim Levie

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:47, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Roger Grosswiler um 9:44:
> 
> > 1)make sure, your saslauthd is correct configured: /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd should look somehow like this:
> > 
> > [roger at link sysconfig]$ more saslauthd
> > # To read about how postfix uses saslauthd read this:
> > # /usr/share/doc/postfix-*/README-Postfix-SASL-RedHat.txt
> > #
> > # To see a list of authentication mechanisms supported by saslauthd execute this command
> > # /usr/sbin/saslauthd -v
> > #
> > # Default to pam
> > MECH=pam
> > #MECH=shadow
> > [roger at link sysconfig]$
> 
> Roger,
> 
> can you tell me why you describe the step to change the default setup of
> saslauthd touse MECH=pam instead of default MECH=shadow? As you give not
> any argument I just can't understand any need for it. The default
> setting is absolutely correct and works proper.
> 
> And besides configuring Cyrus-IMAPd in any way it all helps less, if the
> MTA does not know good about the Cyrus-IMAPd deliver tool and the LMTP
> socket.
> 
> Alexander
>