[Gllug] Cyrus IMAP delivery

Steve Nicholson steve.nicholson at yoursolutions.com
Thu Oct 18 12:45:09 UTC 2001


Mike
Thanks for your explanation of using Cyrus IMAP and filters, I'm looking
at setting this up at some stage and found this very helpful to get an
idea of how it works.

Steve.

> Seriously though, cyrus is designed to work as a black box,
> where users
> don't need local accounts. If you have existing procmail scripts, you
> can make them work by using procmail as the local delivery agent, and
> having procmail call the cyrus deliver program to perform
> final delivery
> to the appropriate mail folder.
>
> Personally, I'd avoid that. The Cyrus deliver program has caused me
> grief, and I think it's best to not use it if possible. It's
> far better
> to set your mail server up to talk LMTP to cyrus directly. I
> can provide
> potted scripts for doing this with sendmail if anyone needs them, and
> it's not hard with Exim or Postfix AFAIK.
>


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