On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 11:17 AM 12/9/99 -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> >On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I want to run IMAP on my new system, since I need to access email from at
> >> least
> >> two remote machines. I nuked sendmail and installed the postfix RPM from
> >> the 6.1
> >> cdrom. Made a couple of minor config changes and it delivers POP mail
> >> fine. I then located and installed the IMAP RPM. Here's the rub: I can't
> >> find anything in the docs for postfix that describe how to actually deliver
> >> IMAP mail. The closest I can find seems to explicitly require the cyrus
> >> IMAP software (which doesn't come with mandrake 6.1). Am I missing
> >> something here?
> >>
> >
> >out of the box it works like a champ for me, meybe you can be more
> >specific whats not working.
>
> the master.cfg (?) file for postfix says to change the default mailbox
> delivery
> rule to 'cyrus' to deliver imap mail. Unfortunately, that requires a
> binary that
> doesn't exist (/usr/cyrus/deliver, or some such). Put it another way: by
> default, postfix seems to deliver POP mail. What needs to be changed to
> provide IMAP services? The doc files for postfix are not very helpful to
> that end.
Maybe i'm missing some functionality your looking for, but just modify
/etc/inetd.conf so it accepts an imap connection and off you go, all the
tools are already setup for maildrop to /var/spool/mail. What am I
missing here?
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