Installing Cyrus-imapd

Synoptic · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

Ok here is the deal.
- Sendmail is running on the box. - not configured to use IMAP server
- Cyrus-imapd installed - not configured
- SquirrelMail installed - not configured

I need to setup imapd, then configure sendmail to work with it and then (easy part) configure SquirrelMail which I know I can do.

Anyone had goen trhough this setup before ? I really need help as I'm totally lost.

NickDaFish · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 11:12 pm Post subject:

You big problem is going to be getting Cyrus working.
Cyrus is a BEAST with scrappy documentation. Here are some of the resources I used...

A HOWTO
http://www.delouw.ch/linux/postfix.phtml

The Cyrus FAQ
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ.html

The Cyrus mailing list
majordomo@lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Also as ever there are the man pages.

I had a HELL of a time getting Cyrus to work. It's not easy, even by Linux standards. If all you want is a IMAP server consider uw-imap.... it's much easyer and is only missing a few of the features of Cyrus.

mglauche · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 8:50 am Post subject:

cyrus imapd is actually quite easy to install and there is quite good documentation floating around...

the problem is .. cyrus-SASL has absolute crappy documentation, and troubleshooting it is *HARD* .. I often end up stracing the processes to see whats happening bc of missing debug output :S

NickDaFish · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject:

NrG · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 83

Like posted above: http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html

A very good doc about Cyrus, but it is with Postfix and not sendmail dunno if that will be a problem for you.

Im running it atm and it wasnt that dificult to install.

And the Web interface is also very nice.

Good luck

NrG