some problems

[Alexander Dalloz]

Alexander Suslov schrieb:

> Good day,
>
> Came across several troubles with cyrus
> 1. Met a lot written about "no user in db" in auth.log trouble, but  
> could not find any solution. Everything seems to work, but...
> 2. SMTP connection takes some time, not long, but longer than before  
> Cyrus installation. Again everything seems to work, but after the  
> short pause.
> 3. Sendmail can't check user availability during the connection. So,  
> while getting mail for non-existing user it first gets the letter,  
> then while putting it to cyrus finds that no such user, and tryes to  
> send error message back. Usually it remains in mqueue for ever.
>
> My configuration
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.1
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21_2
> sendmail  8.13.6
>
> Cyrus working with sendmail
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>
> in sendmail.mc:
> define(`CYRUS_MAILER_PATH', /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver)
> define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2')
> MAILER(`cyrusv2')
>
>
> i've tried to find the solutions myself, but found none.
> If somebody can help me?
>
> Alexander Suslov


Simple and basic setup NEED: use virtusertable within Sendmail so that 
the MTA already knows about valid mailboxes. Else spam with faked sender 
addresses hits innocent third and you soon may get blacklisted.

Or setup real time interaction between Sendmail and Cyrus-IMAPd with one 
of the solutions Andrzej kindly documented:

http://anfi.homeunix.net/cyrus/#sendmail

Alexander