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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:26:26 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
Cc:        questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104101613400.14755-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010410045158.N80191-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, FreeBSD wrote:

> Welp, solved the ctl_deliver DBERROR issue (just needed to do more
> reading). For those who are running into the same issue I am, you need to
> create /var/imap/deliverdb/db, chown them cyrus:cyrus, and chmod 0755 (for
> both deliverdb and the subdir db). At this point cyrus-imapd-2.0.12_3 is
> starting up OK. But I'm still left with the question: How are users
> shared? How does pwcheck fit in the picture? And how do I have some users
> to only exist in Cyrus and some in the BSD system (admin purposes etc)? Or
> can I have cyrus accept mail for both cyrus users as well as system users?

In no particular order: you can have users that only exist in Cyrus.
These need sasldb password entries. You also can have users that exist
in /etc/passwd, etc. These can also have entries in sasldb, _or_ they
can authenticate against the system passwrod database.

That's the job of pwcheck: you (imapd, actually) give it a username and
password, and it checks it against the system database.

You _can_ (if I recall correctly) configure cyrus to create user
mailboxes "on the fly". Otherwise, before you can deliver mail to a user
you'll need to make them a mailbox. Using cyradm to do something like:

	cm user.foobar

is sufficient if "foobar" is a system user.

-- 
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