Setting Up of IMAP Server

[Milos Zupancic]

Just for info on point 4, about web user management.

There is a module for Webmin that you can use, it has all the basic stuff
that you need to create/delete/modify/rename/reconstruct .... users (quota,
ACL folders creation)
http://www.tecchio.net/webmin/cyrus/

regards, Miki


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> --On 11 December 2009 18:30:47 +0530 prasanna <prasannap at cdac.in> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >       I setting up a Mail server for my company.  I have installed
> Postfix, it
> > is working fine.  I am confused to choose a IMAP server. Some of my
> > requirements are
> >
> >     1) Users are created using /etc/passwd, No Mysql or LDAP at present.
> >     2) User should be given quota for their INBOX, selected users should
> >     have unlimited or variable quota
> >     3) Quota exceeded users mails should be stored somewhere other than
> >     their inbox, on request from the user should be delivered to them by
> >     increasing their quota for time being.
> >     4) Web based Management of User.
> >     5) Backup option of user mailbox  should be available.
> >     Do all my requirement can be met by cyrus imap server??
> > If yes, can you provide me the links to met the above requirements
>
> Cyrus IMAP can do (1) and (2)
>
> (3) Your MTA (Postfix) should queue messages for delivery, and you should
> be able to deliver them on demand after fixing a quota problem. That's how
> I work, but using Exim as the MTA.
>
> (4) Cyrus doesn't have web based user management. However, you don't really
> need that. Cyrus IMAP will create a mailbox if you try to deliver email to
> a new user. Make sure that Postfix rejects email for unknown users, and
> you'll be fine.  There may be third party solutions for deleting users,
> managing quotas, and so on. The usual thing is to use a command line tool.
>
> (5) You can use your regular file system backup tools to back up Cyrus-IMAP
> mailboxes. Emails are stored in separate files, so incremental backups are
> very efficient. It's possible to use delayed expunge to ensure that all
> emails are backed up, even if they arrive and are deleted between
> incremental backups.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > P. Prasanna
>
>
>
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