mixed delivery to imap and non-imap mailboxes

[Jerome M Berkman]

Robert,

We do something similar - most of our users are in the IMAP mailstore 
(an old derivation of Cyrus) plus a few admins using /var/spool/mail.
We use a database to differentiate, and have sendmail rules to pick
the appropriate MDA, in our case, the "local" delivery agent or "sms"
delivery agent.

	- Jerry

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Robert Urban wrote:

> Hello imappers,
> 
> apparently the standard installation of cyrus imap entails changing
> themail config such that local delivery is performed exclusively to
> IMAP mailboxes.
> 
> I'm trying to configure a system on which some users should have mail
> delivered to IMAP mailboxes, others however to their regular unix
> mailboxes.
> 
> I can imagine that others have also had to solve this problem,
> particularly considering there are some accounts that require
> exceptions to the usual delivery rules. In particular the "root"
> account springs to mind.
> 
> Before I install procmail as my MDA and handle it that way, I wanted
> to ask this community if there is a simpler way.  It would seem
> reasonable for "deliver" to deliver to a unix mailbox if no such
> cyrus user exists. Since I couldn't find anything about this in the
> docs, I presume it doesn't behave this way.
> 
> Any comments or simpler solutions?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Rob Urban