Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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
I'm running SuSE 9.0. I tried intsalling the cyrus server, but it
doesn't seem to work at all. It does not leave a running, functioning
mail (IMAP) server, and has almost no README docs on it. I have never
had any luck with the SuSE supplied cyrus server, although maybe it has
improved since the last time I did manage to get it running from sources
(which was back in the SuSE 6.3 days).
I am using the startup script from the SuSE install, which required
changing the path to the 'master' program.
One thing that confused me was that some of the faqs I found said imap
MUST be enabled in inetd and others said it must NOT be enabled.
The startup file points to /usr/cyrus/bin/master, which looks to be
correct.
I am trying to run cyrus server 2.2.12.
One frustration is that I can't find much information on what compile
flags to use. The list of all the flags is a bit overwhelming, and I'm
used to compiling my own software. There used to be a faq with step by
step tests which I can't find anymore. The WIKI site doesn't really
have a lot of documentation yet.
I turned off imap in inetd, and I can still login to telnet imap,
however, I am now getting an error: "cyradm: cannot authenticate to
server with as cyrus"
I see on google that a lot of folks are having this problem, and a bunch
of solutions are suggested and none of them work for me.
This also occurs with the standard SuSE install (as I can see from the
google search).
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
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