Fedora 5 + Postfix + Cyrus and i don't get it to work

[Blake Hudson]

carsten.delellis at online.de wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> I am not sure if this is the right forum to place my question. If not
> i would appriceate if everyone would forgive me my mistake.
>
> I have a Standard Fedora 5 Installation running. Standard meens to me
> everything installed via RPMs (the Cyrus-sasl2.12 package as well)
> except the Berkeley 4.5 Database.
>
> I configured postfix and it is working as far as i could see. I tried
> to send emails from the webmin interface and everything worked fine.
> The emails were delivered and i can also receive emails. I have a
> MySQL Database running which i use for other purpose and is also
> working well.
>
> So i downloaded the packages for Cyrus and tried to install them as
> described. But everytime, when i try "./configure" with the path
> options for the berkeley db, for sasl it stops with an error message
> telling me that sasl2 is needed. But i am sure that i had the correct
> path info. It is under /usr/local/sasl2. I then tried to install the
> sasl2. The ./configure command was successful, but when i tried the
> make command i received some errors with no meaning to me.
>
> Now i wonder if anyone has an installation of Cyrus with Postfix and
> Fedora 5 ?? If so, i would appreciate your help on this topic. Maybe
> you can tell me what i am doing wrong or show me how you have
> installed the whole package.
>
I have a FC5 installation with postfix and cyrus... cyrus-imapd can be
found in the Fedora Extras repository.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/

> I would like to thank you in advance.
>
> Kind regards
> Carsten Laun-De Lellis
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