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# Cyrus IMAP HOWTO

## Aurora Skarra-Gallagher (Community Vision)

v1.3, 11 October 2000

A comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and running Cyrus Imap and Cyrus Sasl

## 1. About this HOWTO

- 1.1 Copyrights and Trademarks
- 1.2 Feedback
- 1.3 CHANGES
- 1.4 Document Conventions

## 2. Introduction to IMAP

- 2.1 What is IMAP?
- 2.2 IMAP vs. POP
- 2.3 Cyrus IMAP vs. Washington IMAP

## 3. Obtaining the Files

- 3.1 Cyrus Imap Homepage
- 3.2 Downloading the files

## 4. Different SASL Authentication Methods

- 4.1 sasldb
- 4.2 LDAP
- 4.3 PAM
- 4.4 kerberos_v4

## 5. Cyrus SASL

- 5.1 Uncompress
- 5.2 Building the files

## 6. Cyrus IMAP Installation

- 6.1 Uncompress
- 6.2 A note on com_err.h
- 6.3 Configure
- 6.4 Adding the default user
- 6.5 Building the files

## 7. Cyrus IMAP Configuration

- 7.1 Editing conf files
- 7.2 Creating the necessary directories
- 7.3 More configuration file editing
- 7.4 If you use postfix instead of sendmail

## 8. Cyrus IMAP Implementation

- 8.1 Add the cyrus administrator
- 8.2 Testing Cyrus IMAP
- 8.3 Setting up users
- 8.4 Delivery database pruning
- 8.5 Finishing up

## 9. Troubleshooting

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