Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Luca Olivetti]

Amos Gouaux wrote:

> lo> edit /etc/cyrus.conf and replace the existing lmtpunix line with
> 
> lo> lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/spool/postfix/public/lmtp" prefork=1
> 
> While this will work, as has been discussed on postfix-users, those
> sockets really are not for third party software such as Cyrus.  I'm
> not sure it is wise to instruct folks to go down that path.....

I don't understand: this is a socket opened *by* cyrus, and postfix is 
instructed to talk lmtp to that unix socket.
A local user could use the socket to inject mail to cyrus, but (s)he 
could also use port 25.

Bye
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Luca Olivetti
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