Postfix -> Cyrus-IMAP?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 5 18:54:21 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:44:46PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have cyrus-imapd and postfix on my Debian stable box, and they both
> seem to work fine.  They do not, however, work together.  I was looking
> for the configuration needed to get postfix to deliver to the imapd, and
> this how-to isn't helping:
> 
> http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html
> 
> It calls for programs that don't seem to be installed, and the
> documentation included in cyrus-imapd is not very helpful.  Has anyone
> got a better/different resource, or perhaps know the settings required?

Your mailserver delivers to your mail folder, the imap server looks
there for mail.  the mail server and imap server have noting to do with
each other, other than having to agree on the location of the mail
folder and the format of it.

If you do virtual domains and virtual mailboxes for people that are not
regular users, then things get more complicated of course but for normal
use it should be really simple.

I don't know cyrus, but I know that courier only works with Maildir, not
mbox, so it won't work with most mail servers in the default setup.
Most mailservers can be configured to deliver to Maildir though.  cyrus
may or may not support mbox or Maildir (it will support one of them if
not both).

Most common setups:
/var/spool/mail/username (mbox format)
/home/username/Maildir/ (Maildir format)

Lennart Sorensen
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