Am Mi, den 19.01.2005 schrieb Mark Weaver um 13:52:
I found a post here on the list, posted by Gene Smith: Cyrus imap HOWTO solved!!!, that very nicely outlined the Cyrus-imap setup and followed it - well mostly. Cyrus appears to be working, however when I got to the part where you're supposed to "su cyrus" and then start the "cyradm localhost" commandline it failed. So, I'm off to CPAN to get the necessary module to install so's I can run this config tool.
Please read the docs more carefully. cyradm is shipped with the Core packages! Why wouldn't it not as it is essentially needed to administer Cyrus-IMAPd?
$ rpm -ql cyrus-imapd-utils | grep cyradm /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyradm /usr/share/man/man1/cyradm.1.gz
One of my questions is why is this necessary? I can only assume the obvious is that its because "this is how Cyrus-imap operates." however, with the config of Sendmail and Cyrus as it is now everything connects ok and appears to be working meaning I can connect to the SMTP but when I attempt to connect to the imap service I'm told the user's mailbox doesn't exist! HORSE PUCKY! of course the mailbox exists... its right there in /var/spool/mail/<username>. Did I mention that I've transfered all user files and mail from the old server to this FC3 server box?
Why is it telling me the user mailbox doesn't exist?
Because you didn't carefully enough read the documentation. Else you would realize that Cyrus-IMAPd does not use the mbox storage under /var/spool/mail/. And that you have to create the mailboxes using cyradm for each user (or to use the autocreate patch options).
Mark
Alexander
Ok...fair enough and you're right. I didn't RTFM. :) Which leads me to another question just popping up. Will the old user mailbox files migrate easily to the new cyrus-imap mailboxes or are they in a different format.
As for cyrus admin... it didn't seem to get installed or didn't install correctly because I was getting a perl error upon attempting to initiate cyradm.
-- Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity."
