On 2010-10-26 12:07, micha wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an Exim MTA for use at our university and am
> obviously running into some issues. We have attempted to set this up
> before but given up after a while. No it becomes more urgent to
> establish a new mail server at the institute. I'm starting from what I
> suppose to be a more or less virgin exim/cyrus configuration since we
> have overwritten previous attempts on a recent system update.
>
> What I'm currently trying to achieve is receiving mails with Exim and
> handing them over to cyrus to put them into the users inboxes. From the
> standard configuration I followed the steps mentioned at
> http://anfi.homeunix.org/exim/rtvcyrus.html to the best of my knowledge.
> Here is my configuration:
>
>
> /etc/cyrus.conf:
> ...
> SERVICES {
> ...
> lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="localhost:2003" prefork=0
> maxchild=20
> ...
> }
> ...
As It has been pointed out in other replies you need cmd="lmtpd -a" to
get "pre authenticated" lmtp - the server listens on loopback interface
to make it more secure.
> [...]
> I also skipped step 4 of the howto as it does not appear to be necessary
> for getting it working in the first place.
> [...]
Step 4 ("RCPT TO" verification) is ESSENTIAL in the recipe. The main
goal had been to avoid backscatter generated by message to non existing
Cyrus IMAP mailboxes.
Without "Step 4.B" there are SIMPLER ways to integrate Exim MTA and
Cyrus IMAP.
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[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip
