IMHO, postfix is in FC3 (in FC2 it was) prepared for cyrus. So all you have to do is installing postfix and ALL packages for cyrus:I must be daft, I installed my new Home-Net-Server w FC3 (P133 w/128MB RAM) and opened up Port 25 via DynDNS (I checked, it's not an open relay, I did the 20 point check via abuse.net IIRC)
Everything works. Then I realised that I don't have a POP/IMAP server set up. I know I can use dovecot and it works out of the box, but I wanted to try Cyrus and also switch to postfix (just bought the O'Reilly book - Postfix - The Definitive Guide, now at Pg 50 of 250) but I'm looking for an quick Howto to get up and running.
Anyone has any suggestions? (eg: Personal HowTos)
I'm gonna goggle up on it when I get home (where I-Net access is available)
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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 17:21:57 up 8:11, 5 users, 1.69, 0.86, 0.44
cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-imapd-utils cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-imapd cyrus-sasl-md5 perl-Cyrus
...plus postfix, of course.
after installation, configure postfix secure..(seems you already did this)
do arrange forwarding of e-mail from users in /etc/passwd to their mailboxes. You can add them either in /etc/postfix/aliases or /etc/postfix/virtual. My prefer is virtual (historically ;-)) After adding them into virtual, do postmap virtual, this creates your virtual-database. If you did in aliases, do postmap aliases or newaliases aliases (always in /etc/postfix)...now you have your delivery database. Make sure, if using virtual, you have in /etc/postfix main.cf activated:
for aliases: 'alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases' for virtual: 'virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual' and 'alias_maps='
now, lets create some mailboxes. call as user cyrus the program like this: 'cyradm localhost' this connects directly to cyrus on your localhost. login with your cyrus-password (there has to be a password specified...)
you'll get a prompt: hostname >
create your mailbox like this: cm user.username
the user. is needed this is the folders default. if you don't put user. in front of your username, cyrus will (in standard-config) not find the mailbox at all. so perhaps, your username will be something like this:
'user.OwMunHeng'
make a ? on the prompt, you will get more out of this.
I think, this should make your cyrus basically working.
Let me know, if problems occur.
HTH Roger
