Seperate Cyrus

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Jun 4 15:17:35 EDT 2003



Patrick Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 22:44, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 08:31, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>>Christian Schulte wrote:
>>>
>>>>Patrick Nelson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Wow...  Got my system working great...  RH9 and Cyrus 2.1.13!
>>>>>
>>>>>Was thinking...  Would it be possible to have sendmail on one system and
>>>>>cyrus on another.  This solution is probably simple and/or standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You can use the cyrusv2.mc mailer to connect to cyrus' lmtp port...
>>>>Have a look at cf/mailer/cyrusv2.mc and change the default 
>>>>/var/imap/socket/lmtp unix socket to some lmtp port on a foreign 
>>>>machine! For this you will have to active lmtp service in cyrus.conf and 
>>>>not just lmtpunix service on the machine cyrus is running on.
>>>
>>>
>>>No!  You shouldn't hack the cyrusv2.mc file itself.  Its setup to be 
>>>configurable from your sendmail.mc (or whatever you call it).  Please 
>>>read cf/README in the Sendmail distro.  All you need to do is define 
>>>CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS to be something like `TCP $h lmtp'
>>
>>OK so I'm going to try adding:
>>
>> define(`CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS',`TCP imapsrv lmtp')
>>
>>to the sendmail.mc of the mailersrv to move mail to the imapsrv.
>>
>>I will test to see if this works tomorrow.
> 
> 
> OK finally got around to it.  It didn't work.  So, does anyone know of a
> how-to that will show me how to do this?


Did you build a new sendmail.cf and restart Sendmail?

If done correctly, this will work.  In addition to writing the cyrusv2 
mailer
definition I've also tested it with lmtp over TCP.

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