Cyrus IMAP Presentation

adam at morrison-ind.com adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Sep 18 16:32:06 EDT 2002


>>My m4 -
>>FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail')
>>...
>>MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl
>>...
>>define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2')
>>And it works.  But I still can't get bulletin boarding to work.  The docs
>>make it look like adam+Presentations at morrison-ind.com should post the message
>>into my INBOX.Presentations folder,  but it goes into my INBOX.  And so does
>By default sendmail treats addresses as case-insensitive.  

Ah yes, rfc822!

<As a result,
>the address sent to lmtpd is adam+presentations, which doesn't exist. 
>If you want to be able to post directly to certain mailboxes, I'd
>suggest using all lowercase names for them.

Gotcha.
 
>>adam+INBOX.Presentations at morrison-ind.com.   Permisions on that folder look
>>like
>This will never work.  Essentially 'adam' is your INBOX.

Thats what I figured, but hey, nothing else was working. :)

>>sardine> lam user.adam.Presentations
>>anonymous p
>>adam lrswipcda
>These are correct.
>>Posting to shared folders fails.  Something like bb+PriceUpdates drops off
>>with a user known,  previously using deliver it merely failed with a data
>>format error.  Do I need to add the cyrusbb mailer back in?
>No.
>>I have "postuser: shared" in imapd.conf and the folder looks like -
>postuser is a dummy userid which "owns" the shared folders.  It doesn't
>_need_ to be set, in fact by default it is unset.

Ok.  Makes it clearler to my users though, and they need all the help they can get,

>>sardine> lam shared.PriceUpdates
>>anonymous p
>>group:cis lrswida
>>anyone lrs
>>group:partsqc lrswipcda
>To post to this mailbox with postuser unset, you'd send to
>+shared.PriceUpdates at ... (note that the upper/lowercase thingy is still
>a problem)
>If you set postuser to 'bb', then you'd send to
>bb+shared.PriceUpdates at ...
>>I think I'm missing something basic about bulletin boards,  but I can't
>>find any examples.
>I don't know if this makes it clearer or cloudier  ;)

Much clearer,  in fact it actually works!  Off to add this to the presentation...

Thanks.




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