> From: Matt Sealey [
mailto:matt@kittycat.co.uk]
> Does anyone know of any foolproof guides on how to configure
> Exim 4 and
> Cyrus 2.1.x so that they work in harmony?
>
Foolproof? Feh!
Took me a while to work out this malarky.
> I just seem to be having a lot of troubles with it. I checked past
> archives of exim-users and lo and behold there are plenty of questions
> but zero answers. I hope I can get something this time :)
>
> Basically the to-do for my setup are as follows:
>
> * Get mail from outside world to Exim (easy, it does this
> okay already)
> * Get Exim to deliver to Cyrus (any old how)
My setup involves users accounts stored in MySQL which exim uses to validate
accounts, before passing them to this router:
virtual_delivery:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver \
-m ${substr_1:${local_part_suffix}} \
-- ${local_part}"
return_output
user = cyrus
group = mail
log_output
message_prefix =
message_suffix =
envelope_to_add = true
return_path_add = true
I found it somewhere on the net and all I can say is it works for me!
> * Get Cyrus to work (any old how :)
You need to copy one of the suggested configs to /etc/cyrus.conf and then
write an /etc/imapd.conf file
> * Get both to use /etc/passwd or so to authenticate both SMTP
> AUTH and IMAP
Exim has support for pam if you compiled it in. My Exim setup checks the
passwords direct against MySQL, bypassing pam.
Relevant snippit of /etc/imapd.conf :
cleartextloginpause: 5
autocreatequota: 10000
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
Then configure pam as appropriate. (I'm using pam_mysql but I think I'll be
moving to pam_nssmysql sometime in the near future)
I've also got my init script to start/stop exim/cyrus/saslauthd all
together.
HTH & Good Luck!
Mark.
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