> m wrote: > >>You should read a few books and the relevant RFC documents BEFORE going >> any >>further! >> >> > Thank you! I still wish to hear some suggestions: If there is delivery > agent in both postfix and cyrus, what should I lean on? I read the > virtual(8) and local(8), are these two the so-called 'delivery agent'?
Postfix is supposed to send mail to cyrus-imapd via LMTP protocol. You don't need any 'delivery agent', just send mail to cyrus-imap like this: mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp or local_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp Check the LMTP README from postfix for more info. > If I am going to use the cyrus' delivery agent (sorry I don't know its > name) I don't have to go through virtual(8) and local(8) any more? > > I heard cyrus have different native mail storage structure other than > maildir, is it true? If I use that format, I cannot use postfix's > delivery agent, right? Forget about maildir and such. Cyrus-imapd is a mailserver, not a fileserver. By mailserver I mean imap, pop3, sieve but also mail storage or mail searching. You simply don't care about how cyrus-imapd stores mails and metadata when you configure an MTA to work with cyrus-imapd, just feed mail to it via LMTP and access it through IMAP, POP3 whatever. Of course it can be interesting to know how cyrus-imapd stores mails in case of a desaster recovery procedure or if you want to move accounts to other servers, but that's another issue which again has nothing to do with postfix or any MTA. Simon --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
