Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 09:48:45 -0800 (PST) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG To: rjmcintire@wilshire.net Cc: "'FBSD ISP'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAP server Message-ID: <ML-2.3.856720125.3628.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <199702222321.PAA16211@train.tgci.com>
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> Anyone have any experience, thoughts, suggestions on IMAP servers > under freebsd? > > I'm thinking in particualar of the Cyrus IMAP Server... I've been using Cyrus for a while here. It is the only IMAP server that I've worked with; so I can't offer any comparisons. I've found it fairly easy to install and maintain. So far, my few customers have all had IMAP-capable mail agents; so I haven't bothered to set up the daemon to allow POP3 access to the IMAP mailboxes. I replaced sendmail with exim; and set up rules to deliver into a user's Cyrus mailbox if one exists; and to deliver to a traditional unix mailbox if not. With the filtering capabilities of the .forward enabled, incoming mail can easily be split into separate personal IMAP mailboxes based on header and/or body content matching. This could probably also be done with sendmail and procmail. The one thing to be careful about is that the Cyrus deliver program must run as user cyrus. (Or whatever user you have set up to actually own the mailboxes and run the daemon under.) For obvious reasons you don't want to just make it suid. On a related subject... I have no personal need to access my mail from outside the office; but while testing the setup with ML, I found I liked it so much that I've switched over. (Before, I was forwarding my mail to my SPARCstation and using the OpenLook MailTool or CDE dtmail; with a hand-crafted perl program to split incoming mail into separate folders.) If you are looking for a good unix GUI mail user agent for an IMAP environment, I heartily endorse ML. It makes it easy to create and access multiple mailboxes, multiple servers, and multiple accounts on a single server. (In addition to the usual local mail folder support.) About the only thing it doesn't provide is access to the Cyrus access control lists. The bad news is that it uses Motif. I haven't tried building it under Lesstif yet. (I'm running it on the SPARCstation - I do most of my work there because the type4 unix keyboard has a much saner layout than the AT-101 on the PCs. And X11 mean not having to sit at the machine you are running on...) -Pat
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