On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Igor Brezac wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Igor Brezac wrote: > > > > > > > > configdirectory: /opt/var/imap > > > > > partition-default: /opt/var/spool/imap > > > > > admins: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > This admin is for hudat.com only. Global admins have to be unqualified in > > > > the config file: > > > > admin: cyrus > > > > > > Sorry, meant to mention I tried that too, and no, it didn't work. > > > > > > > What params did you pass to cyradm? What mysql queries where executed? > > Allright, sorry it took so long, but I've been setting a bunch of > different things up for my system and I just came back to the imap > portion... > > Here's the config details for the virtdomains stuff in my config: > > virtdomains: yes > servername: imap.somename.com > defaultdomain: imap.somename.com > admins: cyrus > > I went back and did a bunch of testing, and as it looks, I ended up having > to put "imap.somename.com" in my /etc/hosts file so that it'd come up on > some sort of lookup. I slapped it in as an alias for 127.0.0.1, and as it > turns out, I can't log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] unless I go in > through the 127.0.0.1 interface.
You need to add host.imap.somename.com entry because the code discards the host part. > > I hate to sound mean about this, but that's kinda ridiculous. But, > apparantly it did work. If I go in through the public interface, it just > won't work. Apparently cyrus seems to care whether or not a virtual domain > is pointing at a particular interface or not. That can't be good practice, > and will likely frustrate people. > > In any case, I did get it working... I have a question though... What > happens if an ISP has a configuration where they have an SMTP server, an > IMAP server (running cyrus 2.2), and a web farm handling the web traffic > for their several hundred sites. Does this mean that unless they point DNS > name records for the domain (not the hosts within it) to the imap server, > it won't let users log into their mailboxes if the users' domains are > pointed to the webfarm? Or worse yet, will the admins have to maintain a > local list of domains mapped to that interface in the /etc/hosts for that > domain? > This question is confusing. None of this matters if your users use fully qualified userids. -- Igor
