Solaris+cyrus_imap+sendmail

[Christian Schulte]

Antonio Xu wrote:

> Hello, All
>       I'm a volunteer work for mozilla's mailnews, now I have set up a 
> cyrus imap server for my testing, but I meet a problem of how to 
> configure the cyrus's Imap server and make it can work with sendmail. 
> I set up the server on solaris, so I meet some problme. I use solaris8 
> and cyrus-imapd-2.1.9. I need your help due to I could not find a 
> correct document about how to configure sendmail and make it work with 
> cyrus-imap on solaris. I only know I must edit sendmail.mc file and 
> createsendmail.cf file with it. But I don't know how to hold my old 
> setting like domain name, my sendmail.mc file like that
> # divert(-1)
> #
> #    (C) Copyright 2000 by Carnegie Mellon University
> #
> #    This sample mc file is for a site that uses the Cyrus IMAP server
> #    exclusively for local mail. This requires Sendmail 8.10 or later.
> #
> # $Id: cyrusv2.mc,v 1.3 2000/09/09 04:02:11 leg Exp $
>
> divert(0)dnl
> VERSIONID(`cyrus v2 sample configuartion')
>
> OSTYPE(`solaris8')
> define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')
> define(`confTO_IDENT',`0')
>
> dnl setting cyrus as the trusted user will make it easier to pass
> dnl Sendmail's safefile checks.  however, it means that someone with the
> dnl "cyrus" password could easily become root.
> dnl define(`confTRUSTED_USER', `cyrus')
>
> define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrus')
>
> FEATURE(`nocanonify')
> FEATURE(`always_add_domain')
> MAILER(`local')
> MAILER(`smtp')
>
> MAILER_DEFINITIONS
> Mcyrus,        P=[IPC], F=lsDFMnqA@/:|SmXz, E=\r\n,
>       S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>       A=FILE /var/imap/socket/lmtp
>
> LOCAL_RULE_0
> Rbb + $+ < @ $=w . >    $#cyrus $: + $1
>
> I  used the above file for creating a  new sendmail.cf file,then 
> restart sendmail, but now I can not receive or send  email with the 
> new sendmail.cf
> I need some advices about how to configure sendmail correctly setp by 
> setp.
> Thank you
> Antonio Xu
>
Hi,

did you try it without the LOCAL_RULE_0 ruleset ? I think you will not 
need it and it is used to deliver to shared folders than to mailboxes ! 
I compiled cyrus 2.0.16 with sendmail-8.12.6 supporting SMTP_AUTH and 
SSL and it all works very well. You should start thinking about 
replacing the Solaris sendmail with a self-compiled version. Sendmail 
8.12.6 has some bugfixes for the use of cyrus and you will have more 
control of your sendmail. If you want to enhance sendmail with some 
featues like SSL or SMTP_AUTH, like I had to, you will not be able to 
use the Solaris sendmail in any case...