Re: Postfix with Cyrus Help

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Curtis said:
> I have been trying to set up a Postfix server with Cyrus.

it's pretty easy once you get the basics. Note the below assumes
you are using Cyrus 1.5.x, which is the default version in
both debian 2.2 and 3.0.

first, edit /etc/imapd.conf and set an "admin" user. I reccomend
you use a userid that is NOT going to access mail on the system
(see the cyrus docs on the cyrus website for some reasons why).

then do:

cyradm localhost

you will be prompted for the admin username and password assuming
you have the cyrus server listening for connections on the loopback
interface(among any others).

to create a mailbox do:

cm user.blah

where blah is the account name. I usually create the Sent and Trash
folders too:

cm user.blah.Trash
cm user.blah.Sent

next,(or perhaps first), you need to have a system account named blah.
I store my mail server stuff in LDAP, but to make it easy, as long
as you can 'finger' the account it should work.

change the(I think its called) mailbox_transport option in postfix's
main.cf to cyrus and issue a 'postfix reload'

now sending emails to blah@your_machine_name should be delivered
to cyrus(run tail -f /var/log/mail.log to watch ..)

nate