Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:01:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any cyrus wizards out there ??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980418165807.24388A-100000@shell1.interlog.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980419035319.00ea1cd0@peace.com.my>
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Take a look at NC World, they have an article on setting up a IMAP4 Server on Linux using Cyrus. The admin side should be the same for all verions of Unix. Here is the URL: http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-04-1998/ncw-04-imap.html Hope that helps. Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, chas wrote: > I've just installed cyrus1.5.2 on a clean FreeBSD 2.2.1 box > for the third* time. Installation and configuration seemed > to go ok, and imtest worked fine. > But whenever I log in with the cyradm tool, and try > to create a mailbox, the command fails. A typical session : > > #cyradm xxx.com.my imap > xxx.com.my userid: chas > xxx.com.my password: > xxx.com.my> Apr 19 03:22:14 super imapd[psid]:login: xxx.com.my chas plaintext > xxx.com.my>lm > xxx.com.my>cm user.chas > command failed: permission denied > xxx.com.my>exit > > The user 'chas' is the admin in the /etc/imapd.conf and I have even > tried chmod'ing 777 on /var/spool and /var/imap, in case it is file > permissions. No joy whatsoever. > > What other permissions could be causing the problems ? > > If worse comes to worse, is it possible to manage cyrus > without cyradm ? > > thank you immensely, > > chas > > *I first tried with the original source files (not the port) ... > imapd compiled perfectly but cyradm failed due to the weird > placement of tcl81 and tk81 libraries. > I've also installed the cyrus port on a FBSD 2.2.5 box with the > same errors - ie. the inability to create mailboxes (a wee > problem for a mailserver). > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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