Am So, den 12.03.2006 schrieb Jim Sabatke um 15:50: > I know this is a common problem. I've spent well over 100 hours > scouring google for answers. I've sunk to just 'trying' things to see > how they work. I had cyrus working with postfix once, but I had a disk > crash a year ago and lost some of the setup. Fortunately I didn't lose > much email, which I badly need, and soon. > > I couldn't connect to "telnet localhost imap" until I activated imap in > intetd, which is contrary to 'most' documentation.
You then activated the wrong IMAP server. Cyrus-IMAPd has a standalone daemon master process and isn't (x)inetd controlled. > Now I can't get past the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/programs/mail/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12> cyradm > cyradm> cm user.jim > createmailbox: no connection to server > cyradm> This is a result of running not Cyrus-IMAPd but a different IMAP server. > I assume the server is cyrus. I just don't know where to go next and am > very frustrated. I would be happy to just be pointed to a faq or > instructions, but I find that what is online is not in anyway > consistant; probably due to the advanced coding of cyrus. Even > compiling the program is almost undocumented unless one knows what all > the flags do. > Jim The path you show above looks very uncommon. Which OS / release do you run? Doesn't it ship with a binary version of Cyrus-IMAPd which you could easily install? Doesn't it have an init script? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 17:02:58 up 16 days, 18:51, load average: 0.08, 0.17, 0.23
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