No. cyrus has its own mail store format. Which is similar to maildir, but ...

cyrus can authenticate against everything which can be authenticated against via pam (I use ldap), so mysql shouldn't be an issue, if there are pam modules to do that. That all works via saslauthd.

ok thanks - so cyrus-imap cant be used with postfix if i use the inbuilt mail delivery of postfix?

Does anyone know any good how-to's that cover setting up postfix with cyrus?

Tom Brown wrote:

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No. cyrus has its own mail store format. Which is similar to maildir, but ...

cyrus can authenticate against everything which can be authenticated against via pam (I use ldap), so mysql shouldn't be an issue, if there are pam modules to do that. That all works via saslauthd.

ok thanks - so cyrus-imap cant be used with postfix if i use the inbuilt mail delivery of postfix?

Well, I use lmtp - which postfix and cyrus both speak.

For the other question see Akemi's mail.

Cheers,

Ralph

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I would like to use the above config, i think.

Can cyrus-imap work nicely with Maildir ? If so is there one available thats configured with msql support?

In the past i have used courier-imap but ideally i want to use sieve

if it's just for sieve, you can use dovecot. it's mostly "compatible" with courier.

hi - yes what i am trying to get working is server-side mail filtering and in the past with exim i have used cyrus with sieve. Can you tell me what dovecot will offer me to achieve this over courier?

thanks

Tom Brown wrote:

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I would like to use the above config, i think.

Can cyrus-imap work nicely with Maildir ? If so is there one available thats configured with msql support?

In the past i have used courier-imap but ideally i want to use sieve

if it's just for sieve, you can use dovecot. it's mostly "compatible" with courier.

hi - yes what i am trying to get working is server-side mail filtering and in the past with exim i have used cyrus with sieve. Can you tell me what dovecot will offer me to achieve this over courier?

you must make your mind :)

if all you want is "server-ide filtering", then use maildrop which is part of the courier suite. since you already have courier working, adding maildrop should be trivial (it uses courier authdaemon). maildrop is flexible (more flexible than sieve since you can call external programs/scripts) and uses a pcre syntax (which is also more flexible and more generic than sieve, but is also more readable than procmail jargon).