Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Simon Matter]

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!

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

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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

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Please mention all involved PAM facilities: imap,pop,sieve

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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

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

Simon

>
> And I have a couple of questions that the docs just didn't seem to fill in:
>
> 1. Does Cyrus IMAP has a logo?
>
> 2. What is the best way to backup the mail store?  Just tar?  Even while
> master is running?
>
> 3. When, pragmatically, does someone want to use IMAP IDLE?  I'm a little
> lost on that one.
>
> 4. SIEVE seems to be poorly documented.  Any link?
>
> 5. Are there any benchmarks comparing Cyrus, UW, and Courier?  I know all
> benchmark numbers are squishy,  but some types really want to see them.  So
> far, since I've switched from UW to Cyrus, Cyrus seems to leave UW in the
> dust.
>
> 6. Is Mulberry the only mail client to support adjusting the ACLs of
> mailboxes, etc... (It looks like it does from screenshots I've seen).  If
> so, are the protocol extensions required to do this documented?