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<H2><A NAME="s8">8. Cyrus IMAP Implementation</A></H2>
<H2><A NAME="ss8.1">8.1 Add the cyrus administrator</A>
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<P>Run the following command to set up a user for cyrus
<P><CODE>/usr/local/sbin/saslpasswd cyrus</CODE>
<H2><A NAME="ss8.2">8.2 Testing Cyrus IMAP</A>
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<LI><CODE>killall -HUP inetd</CODE></LI>
<LI><CODE>su cyrus</CODE></LI>
<LI><CODE>imtest -m login -p imap localhost</CODE></LI>
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<P>Enter your password. If you see something like:
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(L01 OK User logged in means you're in)
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<P>Then the setup has been successful. Type
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. logout
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<P>to log out.
<H2><A NAME="ss8.3">8.3 Setting up users</A>
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<P>Still as the user cyrus, type the following commands. They will set up the
mailbox(es) for each user. Fill in the username where you see the (username).
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<LI><CODE>cyradm localhost</CODE></LI>
<LI><CODE>cm user.joebob</CODE> (for all the user joebob)</LI>
<LI><CODE>quit</CODE></LI>
<LI><CODE>exit</CODE> (back as root)</LI>
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<P>Now as root, enter a password for each username
<P><CODE>saslpasswd (username)</CODE>
<H2><A NAME="ss8.4">8.4 Delivery database pruning</A>
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<P>If you don't periodically prune the database of deliveries, you can fill up your file system. Adding a cron job which will run once a day is one way to do this. That involves going to <EM>/etc/cron.daily</EM> and creating a file named cyrus-imapd. Inside that file, put the following two lines of code:
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#!/bin/bash
su cyrus -s /bin/bash -c '/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -E 3'
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<P>Make this script executable by running: <CODE>chmod 755 cyrus-imapd</CODE>
<P>You should also create the deliverdb directory to store database files in:
<P><CODE>mkdir /var/imap/deliverdb</CODE>
<H2><A NAME="ss8.5">8.5 Finishing up</A>
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<P>Reboot the machine to make sure that everything has been restarted under the new
configuration
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