Cyrus + LDAP Suggestions/Help

[Jules Agee]

Michael Nguyen wrote:
>>>How do I get Cyrus to "know" what directory to look in for this user's mail?

Cyrus doesn't use maildir, and will not store mail in a user's home 
directory. It's a black box. Mine keeps all mail in /var/spool/cyrus. 
Mail comes in via LMTP, gets filtered with Sieve, and goes out via IMAP 
or POP. There is no support for directly accessing the message data 
using programs other than cyrus, except through those protocols.

'Course, every message IS stored in a plain text file, and folder 
indexes are easy to rebuild using the reconstruct tool if you need to 
manually fiddle with a mailbox. Though doing this is NOT "officially 
recommended," I've never had a problem doing it.

I think Courier gives you some more flexibility, and is probably easier 
to get set up in the first place, and might be a decent choice if 
performance is not your most important criteria. But there are some real 
advantages to using Cyrus, too. The performance is very good compared to 
other solutions. Sieve is very nice. Duplicate delivery suppression is 
very nice, especially if you have several hundred people, all members of 
multiple local lists and most of them habitually cross-posting...

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Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284
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