On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Per-Olov Sjoholm wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:44, Joco Salvatti wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the tips you sent me. I could finally put
> > squirrelmail to work. Now everything is almost fine, but there is
> > still a little problem: I can send and receive e-mail through
> > squirrelmail, but when it comes to receive an e-mail, it arrives at my
> > mailbox (/var/spool/username) but it doesn't appear at my INBOX. But
> > when I send an e-mail it appears at my sent items folder. Does anyone
> > know what's happening?
> >
> > Just to remember:
> >
> > OpenBSD 3.9
> > postfix
> > procmail
> > cyrus-imapd
> >
> > Squirrelmail folders are placed at
> >
> > /var/spool/imap/user/<myusername>/Sent, Drafts, Trash
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Cyrus is a sealed server. And you have to deliver incoming mail directly to
> Cyrus from your MTA or its helper program. You can switch to sendmail and use
> its "cyrus" mailer to deliver to the cyrus process. Or you can make procmail
> (that you seems to use) write directly to your Cyrus maildir store.
>
>
> It would have been easier for you if you had used the built in sendmail and
> just enabled the cyrus mailer in it.
That being said, the postfix configuration files - not to mention
documentation - include a sample Cyrus transport, so it's not like you
actually *need* Sendmail.
(See /etc/postfix/master.cf for details.)
Joachim
