-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sandy Drobic wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> Cyrus has it own mailbox and account structure (it is effectively a mail >> black box with mail stored in a database). I think you need create the >> appropriate cyrus mailbox so that delivery can take place. All postfix >> bit is point postfix delivery to the cyrus mail system. It does not >> really need postfix as it has its own MTA and MDA agents. > > A good part of this is at least a bit misleading. (^-^) > I hope you don't mind if I expand a bit on your comment. > > Cyrus does indeed not use maildir to store mails, though it may look the > same at first glance. Instead the mails are stored in folders and a few > databases are maintaining the structure and status flags. So the mails are > NOT stored in a database, but the status of the mails is (mailboxes.db, > seen.db, deliver.db etc.). > > The valid mailboxes are maintained in mailboxes.db. Before a mailbox can > be used it must be created. This can be done in cyradm or by scripts that > use similar funktions. Both php and perl provide modules where the > neccessary functions are available. > > Postfix does indeed not deliver the mail itself, lmtp is used either > directly or through a pipe transport (in Postfix the transport is called > "cyrus" in master.cf) using the deliver binary from Cyrus. In the end, it > is the same since deliver will also use lmtp to submit the mail to Cyrus. > > So the delivery is not done by the Postfix local delivery agent (either > "local" or "virtual"). > > But Cyrus is a pure imap server, it does not speak smtp, so a MTA (mail > transfer agent) like Postfix, Exim or Sendmail is neccessary. Maybe you > mistook it for Courier. There are two packages available: courier-imap, > the imapserver, and courier-mta, the mailserver package.
Lifted of Mullet & Mullet - Managing IMAP - Part III - p107..p108 . read this thing when establishing which version of IMAP to run with... Took one look at Cyrus decided was not a runner... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQhS+asN0sSnLmgIRAgn9AJ9l5i20Ef4/o+43uROyFVOXHsIYgACglq4D XNplISp1x5d96PEmnpraKTs= =O/Ou -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
