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Building the imap server on jupiter:

Things you need:

You will need to rpmbuild the sasl, and the db4 (using the specfile). When you do the update with the resulting packages, you will probably have to use --nodeps to force it to work.

Once this is completed, building and installing the cyrus imapd srpm is straight forward.

Here is our /etc/imapd.conf file:

configdirectory: /opt/cyrus/imap
partition-default: /opt/cyrus/spool
admins: cyrus
sievedir: /opt/cyrus/imap/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
hashimapspool: true
tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
sasl_mechs: PLAIN
virtdomains: yes
defaultdomain: completely-bogus-and-unrelated-domain.ca
allowplaintext: yes
altnamespace: yes
autocreatequota: 15000000
createonpost: 1
unixhierarchysep: 1

This is our /etc/mail/cyrus.conf:

START {
  recover	cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"
}

SERVICES { imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5 imaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1 pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=3 pop3s cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1 sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 }

EVENTS { checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400 tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400 }

The cyradm administration thing is dependant on name resolution order, so you need to have your /etc/hosts look like this:

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
142.46.200.221	jupiter jupiter.gridway.net
142.46.200.194	fwall.gridway.net
...ie: the short system name must be first. Or it won't work. You have been warned. (This is probably some interaction between name resolution and treating the real domain as a virtual one.)

Testing:

Oh yeah, don't forget to use saslpasswd2 to create your user authentication. Especially for the admin user, defined above in imapd.conf.

$    /usr/local/bin/imtest -m login -a cyrus@gwx1 localhost          
S: * OK gwx1 Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password: 
C: L01 LOGIN cyrus@gwx1 {5}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 OK User logged in
Authenticated.
Security strength factor: 0
. logout

Enter the the relevant password (in this case, it is the password for cyrus@gwx1); and as long as you don't get any evil error messages prefixed by S: L01 you should be ok. Enter . logout to make it go away.

Test it with the authentication method you wish to use (ie, you want plain, login, and DIGEST-MD5). As so:

$    /usr/local/bin/imtest -m DIGEST-MD5 -a cyrus@gwx1 localhost
S: * OK gwx1 Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR
S: C01 OK Completed
C: A01 AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5
S: + bm9uY2U9Ik1RcTlwaTQvZ3czalcyaUVPaFhLRng2NnNPMnZ2eENrZWxRRGlBbnN1Szg9IixyZWFsbT0iZ3d4MSIscW9wPSJhdXRoLGF1dGgtaW50LGF1dGgtY29uZiIsY2lwaGVyPSJyYzQtNDAscmM0LTU2LHJjNCIsbWF4YnVmPTQwOTYsY2hhcnNldD11dGYtOCxhbGdvcml0aG09bWQ1LXNlc3M=
Please enter your password:

...blah, blah, blah.

It would be a good idea to configure sendmail for delivery to cyrus: sendmail.

Now you can go use cyradm to create and administrate mailboxes.

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