Am Di, den 08.06.2004 schrieb Florin Andrei um 10:20:
Just to make it clear, with Cyrus you have to explicitly create with
cyradm each account that receives mail. If you just create the Unix
account, it will not receive mail!
Partly true. Based on the packaging by Simon Matter the Cyrus-IMAPd on
FC2 has the autocreate patch, see
http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/
Thus - if you configure it proper - INBOXes can be created
automagically.
That's because Cyrus does not care about the Unix user database,
it uses
its own. It's just an artifact of the default setup with FC2 that
authentication is performed against the Unix user database, Cyrus can be
(and usually is) totally independent of it.
Right, though I would not call it artifact. It is like with the MTA,
which you can too configure to authenticate against a system independent
user database (i.e. sasldb, ldap, mysql).
Florin Andrei
Btw. thanks for your effort to explain new Cyrus-IMAPd users some
important features and configuration steps in the other list mailing.
The only thing which I do not understand is, why you said following:
0. Fix saslauthd
Edit /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and change MECH to "pam":
MECH=pam
Then (re)start saslauthd
Is that really a needed step? If yes, then saslauthd became broken as it
worked withouth problems on FC1. Can you confirm that MECH=shadow does
not work?! Would be worth a bugzilla entry then.
Regards
Alexander
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