Cyrus and local user delivery?

[Simon Matter]

> Hello,
>
> I am running Cyrus IMAP using Postfix. Currently all my IMAP mail users
> are standard Cyrus users where they don't have an account
> on the server, but rather are stored in the Cyrus system and have an entry
> in the SASL2 Database.
>
> Is it possible to configure Cyrus/Postfix so that a person with a local
> Unix account can access his/her mail using IMAP?
> If so how? Or can Cyrus not use the standard mailbox accounts?

You can not access standard mailbox accounts through Cyrus but can can
configure Cyrus to authenticate your local unix accounts. You can
authenticate against shadow or via pam.

Simon

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jim Norton - http://www.jimnorton.org
>
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