Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[adam at morrison-ind.com]

>On Sunday 15 September 2002 04:03, adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>>I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to
>>the local LUG in a couple of weeks.  I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters
>>would take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong.
>>ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf
>Hi,
>Like your LDAP docs, the Cyrus docs are great too, congratulations!
>Page 5:
>- RedHat RPMs of Cyrus...
>- ...RedHat 8.0 (or 7.4) ships with both Cyrus SASL v1 and v2,...
>You could also mention that paths in the RPM packages differ from a manual 
>install because the RPMs try to comply with Linux FHS.

Done.

>Another thing is to mention that one has to assign a password to the cyrus 
>user. Many people forget this.

Done.

>Page 16:
>You may mention that with an RPM istall on RedHat, saslauthd should be 
>started like this:
>edit /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and enter any of the following options:
>MECH=pam            (default: shadow)
>FLAGS="-n 5"        (default: none)
> chkconfig saslauthd on
> service saslauthd start

Wondeful, I completely overlooked that.

>Page 17:
>Please mention all involved PAM facilities: imap,pop,sieve

Done.
 
>Page 20:
>Would be nice to add a postfix section:
>To use lmtp as mail transport, add this to /etc/postfix/main.cf
>mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>and make sure lmtp is not chrooted (until you want some troubles...)
>check for this line in /etc/postfix/master.cf
>lmtp      unix  -       -       n       -       -       lmtp

I'll add that, with credits since I've never used postfix.

>BTW, would you mindif I include your migration scripts into the RPM?

Sure, especially since they aren't really mine.