From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 8:51:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c1030098-a.wtrlo1.ia.home.com (c1030098-a.wtrlo1.ia.home.com [24.14.126.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4828437B423; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mdharnois@localhost) by c1030098-a.wtrlo1.ia.home.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7OFpOZ55349; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:51:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mdharnois@home.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mharnois.workgroup.net: mdharnois set sender to mdharnois@home.com using -f To: Allen Landsidel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cyrus imapd problems resolved.. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000824082639.00afffb8@mail.megapathdsl.net> From: Michael Harnois Date: 24 Aug 2000 10:51:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Allen Landsidel's message of "Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:45:39 -0400" Message-ID: <86g0nuk683.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.2 (Nike) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:45:39 -0400, Allen Landsidel said: > After installation of the port, the user needs to run > /usr/local/sbin/saslpasswd to create an entry in the sasl > password database. The user they create (just to get things > going here) should also have their name listed as an "admin" in > imapd.conf. I believe the docs suggest somewhere that the admin user should not be any normal user who receives mail. I use "cyrus." > I only mention this because the Cyrus documentation REALLY SUCKS > and it was only after hours of scouring usenet that I came > across this tidbit posted in an OpenBSD newsgroup where someone > else was having similar problems. Every time I've upgraded I've gone through hell. Thanks for working on this. Oh, another thing (in case anyone is listening) ... a make deinstall deletes the database index of the existing IMAP store. This is not a good thing, IMHO. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA mdharnois@home.com aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. --Woodrow Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message