From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 3:10:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C52737B50B for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 03:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:10:34 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14l6ht-0003ja-00; Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:09:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:09:37 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Aaron Hill Cc: questions Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAP with qmail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Aaron Hill wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently got qmail working on my 4.2R system and now want to install an > IMAP server. > > Cyrus IMAP seems to be highly regarded for it's secure properties, which > appeals to me so I've set that up from the ports. Problem is all the Cyrus > docs talk about Sendmail and occasionally postfix. > > Can someone help me out with any pointers to things I might need to look out > for. I don't like installing things blindly and hoping they work. I've seen > newsgroup posts that show people are using Cyrus IMAP and qmail together but > it doesn't offer any help on how it's done. > > My I don't have to do anything from the defaults? Looks suspicious. > > BTW - qmail is using the Maildir mail delivery method - if that makes sense. Unless there are patches to cyrus, you'll have to lose the maildir stuff; cyrus manages its own imap repository. You need to deliver via an external program (cyrus' "deliver") - the is like delivering to "vacation" except that "deliver" doesn't want the From blah line that vacation requires. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Scrabble gematria: "BIBLE" = "DOGMA" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message