On Saturday 29 April 2006 02.00, John Brahy wrote:
> How do I configure cyrus imapd to retrieve mail from normal unix mailboxes
> and validate against the unix password? I have been trying to find info on
> it and I can't find anything that works with v2.2.12 from 3.8 ports. Can
> someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
To authenticate against OpenBSD unix password login you can do....
>From /etc/imapd.conf:
--snip--
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
allowanonymouslogin: no
--snip--
And probably something like this in /etc/rc.local:
if [ X"${saslauthd}" == X"YES" -a -x /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd ]; then
echo -n " saslauthd"; /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a getpwent
fi
But the mailstore is a sealed store that has nothing to do with what you have
in the unix OS. And I can't see the connection to your mbox mailboxes in the
OS at all.
To retrieve mail from your ordinary mbox files in the OS you could use imap-uw
Dovecot or similar instead. But personally I think Cyrus is way better. I
retrieve my mail to Cyrus imap through sendmail with the cyrus mailer
enabled.
Hope this helps...
Regards
Per-Olov
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