cyrus-imapd howto

[Florin Andrei]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 02:41, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Florin Andrei um 9:45:

> > Anyone using Cyrus on FC2? What were the steps you took to make it work,
> > after installing the RPM?

> It is necessary to tell the MTA to use cyrus's deliver tool and to find
> the LMTP socket.

Yeah, i did that. I can see in the logs that Postfix tries to deliver
the mail to Cyrus. But it gets rejected with:

Jun  7 23:10:42 weiqi lmtpunix[12529]: append_check() of 'user.florin'
failed (Mailbox does not exist)
Jun  7 23:10:42 weiqi postfix/lmtp[12627]: B6C6FB4057:
to=<florin at weiqi.home.local>,
relay=/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp], delay=0,
status=bounced (host
/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox
unknown.  Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or
you do not have authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in
reply to RCPT TO command))

However, the user does exist, i just created it:

weiqi.home.local> cm user.florin
weiqi.home.local> setacl user.florin florin lrswipcd
weiqi.home.local> setacl user.florin anyone none

And i can verify its existence:

weiqi.home.local> lm
user.florin (\HasNoChildren)

Funny thing is, on the other system, which works fine (FC1, same Cyrus
version, slightly older RPM version by Simon Matter compiled by myself),
lm looks a bit different:

localhost.localdomain> lm
user/florin (\HasChildren)
user/florin/Drafts (\HasNoChildren)
user/florin/Sent (\HasNoChildren)
...

The separator here being /

The only major differences between the way the two were built is that
the one that works was built with deliver-wrapper and idled enabled.
The config files in /etc are identical. cyrus.conf is stock, imapd.conf
has a few lines added by myself:

unixhierarchysep: 1
altnamespace: 1
sieve_maxscriptsize: 320

Apparently, Cyrus on FC2 does not honor "unixhierarchysep". I don't know
whether that's the cause.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/