Rob Clendenin said: > I currently am usinx XMail as a pop3 and smtp server. I want to switch > over to IMAP but so far all my efforts have been thwarted.. > > I want to use virtual users and virtual domains so I thought I would use > a postfix/cyrus/mysql solution.. I have yet to get it working.. I get > all the packages and install them but can never get the imap client to > autherize anyone. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Or know of any good How-To's to get > this to work?
what were you going to use mysql for? someone else I know wanted to do something similar..but he didn't really know why he was trying it.. You wanting to use mysql for authentication? for data storage? for email mapping? I use postfix+cyrus+ldap mainly so I can continue my work on learning LDAP, I could drop it and not lose any functionality ..(I also use LDAP for samba-tng, as well as system authentication) First..to get cyrus to authenticate.. make sure pwcheck is loaded, I recently finished helping another guy who was having the same sort of problem(perhaps he is reading this and can share his experiences). While I have installed cyrus about 15-20 times over the past couple of years I never had this issue he had(explained somewhat below) Cyrus requires the pwcheck (/etc/init.d/pwcheck) daemon to run in order to authenticate. First check to see if it is running: ps auxw | grep pwcheck | grep -v grep should print out something similar to: root 22490 0.0 0.4 5724 4144 ? S Oct14 0:23 /usr/sbin/pwcheck if not, then start it up: /etc/init.d/pwcheck start and check to see if it's running. then if it is, try to login, if it fails, check to see if pwcheck is running again, if it is not, then strace the process: strace /usr/sbin/pwcheck that will tell you where it is failing, I don't have the other person's email about his solution but his problem was something like this: pwcheck was complaining that /var/run/pwcheck didn't exist (or maybe it was /var/run/cyrus). And the solution(he found it in the archives I think was to symlink it to /var/state/pwcheck (I believe) if that fixes it, then setup postfix to use cyrus by changing mailbox_transport in /etc/postfix/main.cf to cyrus. and you should be able to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it delievered to the local user. to do virtuals, I use the /etc/postfix/virtuals file which uses the same syntax(from what I see) as sendmail. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser1 @mydomain.com localuser2 etc... I have not yet figured out virtual hosting w/LDAP on postfix yet. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
