I've got to agree with Steve's comments. Cyrus is a wonderful, very full featured IMAP daemon. It will do some tremendous things and is far more powerful than any commercial IMAP daemon that I've ever looked at. However, all of that potential comes at the cost of ease of configuration. It can be a real pain to configure and get working properly, and if you don't have a specific need for one of it's features then I would avoid it too. Jeff On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Steve Hanson wrote: > Bryan Zimmer wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I just installed Fedora Core 2. My old system was RedHat 9. It runs on a > > Compaq Presario with an Intel Pentium III, 512M RAM and an 80 G hard drive. > > > > This machine has been my mail server for years. I run the sendmail MTA > > as a daemon with a pretty vanilla sendmail.cf file and the off-the-shelf > > submit.cf (I *hate* submit.cf but that's a different story. I just don't > > want an msa/msp at all). > > > > > I never had any trouble serving imap from this machine with redhat 7.0 - > > 9. All I had to do was create a system user, do "chkconfig imap on; > > chkconfig --level 35 xinetd on" and my client MUA's would casually pick > > up mail from the imap server with no problem. > > > > Now Fedora Core 2 has cyrus-imapd and I'm at a loss to configure it. Can > > anyone suggest a g ood resource, i.e. a book or web site, that will help > > me configure a simple imap server using Cyrus? My authentication method > > has always been passwords. I configured in MAILER(`cyrus') in my > > sendmail.mc but oviously there's more involved. > > I suspect you really don't want to run Cyrus - it's not the > simplest software package in the world to deal with,a nd > makes no sense at all for someone with a few accounts and > without a dedicated server to run IMAP. > > You might want to try using dovecot instead, which also > comes with the distribution - it's much simpler to deal > with. RE: your question - there really isn't any such thing > as a simple IMAP server running Cyrus. Really. > > The cyrus rpm included in Fedora is fine as it stands, but > there are configuration issues. Unless you really need ACLS > and shared mailboxes and the kind of performance the Cyrus > can crank out, I'd avoid it (and I LOVE cyrus - I just don't > think it's for everybody). > > If you really want to do this you probably really want > > define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2') > > rather than what you did. > > Then you'll need to use the cyradm command to create a > mailbox for each of the mail users. You'll need to make sure > you actually got cyradm installed - you need cyrus-imapd, > cyrus-imapd-utils, and perl-Cyrus installed. > > O'Reilly has a book called -um - I think Managing IMAP - but > it's really out of date for any current Cyrus > implementations. Otherwise there's mostly the Cyrus project > web pages, etc. > > > > > > Anyone for suggestions? I'm no expert, but I haven't had trouble with > > sendmail or imapd in the past, once I got sendmail configured I had no > > problems. > > > > Bryan Zimmer > > bazNOSPAM at winternetNOSPAM.com <mailto:bazNOSPAM at winternetNOSPAM.com> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list