Cyrus
Installation
Install packages
Install Cyrus Package
apt-get install cyrus-admin cyrus-clients cyrus-common cyrus-doc cyrus-imapd cyrus-nntpd cyrus-pop3d cyrus-sasl2-doc libcyrus-imap-perl
Install Sasl auth
libauthen-sasl-perl libgsasl7 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-db sasl2-bin
Validate / Adjust the configuration
/etc/default/saslauthd
START=yes
##Postfix Rooted
OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd"
/etc/imapd.conf
admins: cyrus
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
defaultdomain: objclt.com
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
tls_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
tls_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
/etc/cyrus.conf
imaps cmd="imapd -s -U 30" listen="imaps" prefork=0 maxchild=100
squatter_1 cmd="/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/cyrus squatter -r" period=120
Validate Security
- Add Cyrus user to group ssl-cert same group as privat key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
- /etc/sasldb2 should be owned by cyrus
Test configuration
cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost -tls
List mailboxes
connect localhost
connect localhost
Trouble shooting
Reconstruct mailbox
- Under cyrus run (replace username by the user)
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f -O user.username
lmptunix ending abormal
- Try to reset Database (After Disk full)
service cyrus-imapd stop rm /var/lib/cyrus/tls_sessions.db* rm /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db* rm /var/lib/cyrus/db/* service cyrus-imapd start