On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am not sure how happy I am too find out about cyrus. > > > > I just spent a lot of time getting everythig working on my first > > server...and even sendmail was not too hard (centos 5 sets it up rather > > well)... > > > > Then I see I needed a pop3 doo hickey.. > > > > Holy moly. > > > > Looking for cyrus on machine was interesting as almost all of the files > > would not come up with a 'locate' command. And still do not. I am manually > > going through all the doc folders and etc and sys folders since locate > > cannot find them (and they are there) > > maybe > rpm -ql cyrus-imapd > > > > > > There is only one book on amazon about cyrus and it is not in print > > yet....one. And it has nothing to do with sendmail. Redhat has little info > > on it although it calls it the 'default' pop3 for the enterprise 5.1 > > (centos > > in my case) > > > > All I am looking to do is have sendmail put the mail into users mailboxes > > (users who will be from virtual hosts like jim@xxxxxxxxxx and > > sally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and just allow me to grab the emails with good old > > outlook....and of course send the mails (but that is sendmail I believe.) > > > > Are there any good tutorials just for that, cause by god the program does > > everything under the sun and is rather confusing at first glance... > > How many users do you have, how do you want to authenticate them? Things > are quite different if you have 10 or 10000 users on a server. Cyrus can > do alot which is why it has quite some features you may have to configure. > I can't help with sendmail, I didn't touch it in the last 8 years but > found postfix much easier for me. postfix is a very good alternative to sendmail, I dont know why redhat/fedora still provide sendmail as the default ! Use google, for example search for : postfix cyrus imap howto You will find link like below, read some of them to have a whider advice. http://nakedape.cc/info/Cyrus-IMAP-HOWTO/quickstart-fedora.html an hint: prefer LMTP to cyrdeliver. Regards > > Simon > > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
