Jason, We use Cyrus 2.1.x on FreeBSD 4-STABLE platform. I use sendmail on the front-end and use amavisd-new and PureMessage milters with that as well. It all works quite well.
What I would recommend is downloading Cyrus 2.1.15 (the most current _stable_ [non-devel anyway] version) and Cyrus SASL 2.1.15 and installing them manually on a play box. Get it to work, break it, fix it, break it again, remove it, reinstall it, just spend some time really getting to know it. Once you're pretty familiar with its ins and outs, go ahead and just use the FreeBSD ports (make sure to cvsup them) of Cyrus IMAP and SASL (and don't forget the cyrus-sasl-saslauthd port as well). It makes it very easy to update for new versions, as that port maintainer stays pretty on top of things usually, so you can just pkg_delete cyrus and rebuild the port. It will not affect your stored mail or config or any of that at all to do it that way. You could just use the port right off the bat, but I would strongly reccommend against that, as Cyrus can be a pretty complex thing. If you want more information, and some specifics on how I've implemented it here, just shoot me a mail, I'll be glad to give you some more info off-list. -- Paul Schiro Sr. Systems Engineer American Select <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 720-280-7023 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:44 PM Subject: Cyrus on FreeBSD > Evening everyone. > > I was curious if anyone was running Cyrus on a FreeBSD system? I'm strongly > considering running cyrus for our mail server here and I noticed that is > currently available via the ports tree for FreeBSD. > > I would like to know what your experiences have been: Good? Bad? > How's your performance and if you have had any big problems? > > I really like what Cyrus has to offer and I'm leaning to implementing this > on our Company network. > > Thank you. > > Cheers, > > Jason > >
