On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:23:29AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm been trying to set up SuSE with an IMAP server for a while yet and keep running into some deficiencies.
SuSE promotes two IMAP servers: IMAP from Univ. Wash. with mbox files Cyrus-imap with maildir files.
According to many out in the email world, mbox seems to be such a thing of the past. I've been looking at cyrus as a viable alternative and I keep getting stuck.
cyrus doesn't support procmail very well and without it there are a number of things that cannot be managed at all.
But basically Cyrus isn't *supposed* to do stuff like that. Cyrus is supposed to be sort of the 'endpoint'. What I (and probably many others) do, is to have the MTA hand mail over to Procmail for processing, and have *procmail* call Cyrus' "deliver". This works very well, although it *can* be a little confusing to set up initially (it was to me anyway ;)... Among the benefits are that you can do what you want with procmail, but also that you don't involve Cyrus until it's actually *needed*. Originally I followed this series: "How to set up IMAP on the cheap" http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32735.htm HTH, Jon Clausen -- Whatever rocks your boat!