On Saturday 22 March 2008 14:53, Anne Wilson wrote:
For some time now I have been trying to get IMAP resources working on KMail. I have followed the docs from kde, but they tell how to configure cyrus IMAP, so I've had to learn as I went along.
Referring back to those docs, it seems that this is the part that I'm missing (cyrus instructions follow):
<quote> Now add a user named groupware and set a password for it, using your usual system tools. It should be in an unprivileged group such as nobody and does not require a login shell or a home directory.
Now I have to create the user and an IMAP in cyrus also: # cyramd --user cyrus localhost
after entering the password for the admin user cyrus, you get the prompt
localhost>
localhost> cm user.groupware
localhost> lm _lists the mailbox onlyjust created_
user.groupware (\HasNoChildren))
localhost> quit
You can type help for a list of available commands.
You can check what has happened with:
ls -l /var/spool/cyrus/mail/g/user/groupware
total 12
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.cache
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 155 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.header
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 76 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.index
Now you should be able to connect with an IMAP client as the groupware user and see the INBOX.
NOTE In the IMAP protocol, selecting the mailbox INBOX is a magic word, a sort of "alias" for the above directory structure. The client sees INBOX, and the IMAP server maps it in the /var/spool/cyrus/mail/... folder and file structure. </quote>
How would I create a dovecot user instead of this cyrus one? My own attempt have totally failed.
Anne