Hello cyrus users

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 24. April 2008 09:06:33 +0200 Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> 
wrote:

>> Holy moly.
>>
>> Looking for cyrus on machine was interesting as almost all of the files
>> would not come up with a 'locate' command. And still do not. I am
>> manually going through all the doc folders and etc and sys folders since
>> locate cannot find them (and they are there)
>
> maybe
> rpm -ql cyrus-imapd

True. "locate" only works after updatedb has been run.

>> There is only one book on amazon about cyrus and it is not in print
>> yet....one. And it has nothing to do with sendmail. Redhat has little
>> info on it although it calls it the 'default' pop3 for the enterprise 5.1
>> (centos
>> in my case)
>>
>> All I am looking to do is have sendmail put the mail into users mailboxes
>> (users who will be from virtual hosts like jim at mysite.com and
>> sally at myothersite.com) and just allow me to grab the emails with good old
>> outlook....and of course send the mails (but that is sendmail I believe.)

And you think that's *easy*?? Whenever you work with virtual hosts, things 
get tricky.

>>
>> Are there any good tutorials just for that, cause by god the program does
>> everything under the sun and is rather confusing at first glance...
>
> How many users do you have, how do you want to authenticate them? Things
> are quite different if you have 10 or 10000 users on a server. Cyrus can
> do alot which is why it has quite some features you may have to configure.
> I can't help with sendmail, I didn't touch it in the last 8 years but
> found postfix much easier for me.

I can help with the sendmail integration if neccesary. The authentication 
is probably the most difficult part, though.
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