On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 15:21 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: 
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:31, maillists@conactive.com wrote:

> > because with Cyrus-IMAPd the administrator 
> > (user cyrus) has to create each top-level mailbox (given you didn't 
> > configure and enable the autocreate feature).
> 
> I've never worked with Cyrus, so my assumption may be wrong. But if you 
> don't create any folders and just retrieve mail from the inbox it may work 
> out of the box since it won't copy the inbox to your home dir and so on. 
> That is how uw-imap works out-of-the-box.

Dovecot will work with the system inbox (or you can configure it
to use maildir format instead), but Cyrus uses its own storage
area and needs a special setup and delivery agent.
Les, that doesn't apply to using the Cyrus as a pop server does it?  Assume it just reads from the users mail spool ?