What is the dream book about Cyrus

[Ken Murchison]

Thomas Manson wrote:
> is there no good books about cyrus administration?

Not that I've seen.  The O'Reilly IMAP book is good, but it was already 
outdated when published w.r.t. Cyrus.


>>On 12/16/05, Thomas Manson <dev.mansonthomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>greate it works....
>>>i had found 'autocreateonpost 1' that's why it didn't work...
>>>
>>>On 12/16/05, Thomas Manson <dev.mansonthomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ok thanks!
>>>>
>>>>I already tried to set createonpost without autocreatequota: -1 and it
>>>>didn't work...
>>>>I'll try with "autocreatequota: -1"
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for help.
>>>>(any reference for a good book?)
>>>>
>>>>On 12/16/05, Simon Matter <simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>also meanwhile,
>>>>>>(I'm on RedHat ES 4, postfix+imap up to date)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>i'm getting an error while trying to get mail from a new account :
>>>>>>'Mailbox does not exists'.
>>>>>>So i've made some googling and  found that cyrus doesn't create
>>>>>>mailbox by default(soooo strange) and you need a patch...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So i've tried
>>>>>>cyradm -u cyrus localhost
>>>>>>
>>>>>>it ask a password i don't have. (it's obviously not the root password)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So... Should I set a password for the cyrus user? I don't try because
>>>>>>the server is running and I don't want to break it.
>>>>>
>>>>>This all depends on your configuration. The default on RHEL4 is to use
>>>>>system accounts for auth, which means you have to set a password for unix
>>>>>user cyrus. Then try
>>>>>
>>>>>cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>is this the correct way to do :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>cyradm -u cyrus localhost
>>>>>>cm user.MYUSERNAME
>>>>>
>>>>>This is correct. However, please note that usernames are case sensitive,
>>>>>so maybe you want:
>>>>>
>>>>>cm user.myusername
>>>>>
>>>>>One more note:
>>>>>The package shipped with RHEL4 contains the autocreate patches, so you can
>>>>>set this in imapd.conf to let it create mailboxes for authenticated users
>>>>>on the fly:
>>>>>
>>>>>autocreatequota: -1
>>>>>createonpost: yes
>>>>>
>>>>>Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I've some perl script to generate my mail users, does any body have a
>>>>>>perl example that will do the same?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks for Help,
>>>>>>Manson Thomas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On 12/16/05, Thomas Manson <dev.mansonthomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>i'm looking for a marvellous book about cyrus administration that
>>>>>>>would be up to date, understandable and that make you have sweet
>>>>>>>dreams about Cyrus :o)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Also, if I could buy it on amazon.fr, that would be nice :o)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>Manson Thomas.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>----
>>>>>>Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
>>>>>>Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
>>>>>>List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University