From: "Adonis El Fakih" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I was reading the docs on http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/ about
> Cyrus. We currently run cyrus 1.5.18 and want to upgrade to 1.6+
>
> According to the docs the newest version is 1.6.24, and what prompted me
> to email the list, is that is still says that the /var/imap/mailboxes file
> is a flat file. I recall hearing that the file was changed to a db/dbm
> file?? Did this happen? We are looking to upgrade, since our mailboxes
> file is about 30Megs now! and adding or moving a user is taking a long
> time, and becuase the quota directory is not hashed in 1.5.18.
>
The mailboxes file is still a flat file in 1.6.x. It is a db file in 2.x.
> One more question. We use Mysql authentication with 1.5.18, is this still
> allowed in 1.6?
>
You will need to use either PAM and the pam_mysql module with the Cyrus-SASL
library. Or patch the Cyrus-SASL checkpw.c to add a mysql pwcheck method
(see http://www.surf.org.uk/ for the patch).
Scot
