Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:21:37 -0400 From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Noah <admin2@enabled.com>, Chad Leigh <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer. Message-ID: <226ae0c60605241121v7df1c616h26ec79af705a8bb@mail.gmail.com>
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> ------------------------------ > > Message: 29 > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:23:47 -0800 > From: "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> > Subject: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer > To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <20060524032337.M97496@enabled.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;=09charset=3Diso-8859-1 > > FreeBSD-4.11 > > Well I want to get IMAP running on my FreeBSD box and would like to have = a > safe, non service-interrupting strategy to implementing it. I am leaning > toward installing cyrus imapd. I have some questions about how to get th= ings > working. > > 1)=09Can somebody please recommend a good FAQ about how-to get IMAP runni= ng my > FreeBSD machine? I'm actually writing a step-by-step guide on how I installed Sendmail+TLS+SASL+Cyrus-IMAP. The document is still at a very early beta stage, but it could help you out. Tell me if you'd be interested. Meanwhile, take a look at the following ports which I used in my setup: mail/cyrus-imapd23 security/cyrus-sasl2 security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd mail/sendmail Note that mail/sendmail is listed here because to have a TLS/SSL and SASLAUTH enabled sendmail daemon, you need to recompile it. > 2)=09Are there things I should be aware of before I start the process? You should be confortable with the configuration of Sendmail and with the use of OpenSSL. I would also recommend to try your setup on a test machine rather then your production environment. > 3)=09I don't completely understand how IMAP works =96 is there a good tut= orial > about this subject? Read the documentation that comes with the cyrus-IMAP port. You can also read the Cyrus-IMAP Wiki at http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/ But to understand "how IMAP works", then read the relevant RFC which you can find a list here http://www.imap.org/biblio.html > 4)=09I don't completely understand how local mail delivery will change = =96 is > there a good tutorial about this subject? > > This is not exactly true. If you switch to Cyrus from something > else, you will have to make sure that your mail is delivered to > Cyrus instead if however it was being done before (local mbox or > maildir for example). I have not run Cyrus in many years but they > had their own delivery agent that your local mail agent (mda/mta like > sendmail, exim, etc) would hand off to. Has this changed or does it > still work that way? Yes, that is still how it works. When installing mail/cyrus-imapd23 you need to change your sendmail configuration to change your MAILER from `local' to `cyrusv2'. Regards, David --=20 David Robillard UNIX systems administrator CISSP Sun Certified Security Administrator Sun Certified Systems Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
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