Help with Cyrus

[Jan Sneep]

Thanks for your suggestions ...

Someone on the Postfix list suggested, as well as someone on this list in
another thread suggested ... Webmin ... I was able to download AND install
webmin AND use it in under 10 minutes .... YEAH ! The DEB package is not the
most current version, but I'll tackle that another day.

What a veritable cornucopia of information and access to the servers ... and
YES it's a GUI !!!

So hopefully I can look at things and see what the problem is.

Cheers,

Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Derek
> Broughton
> Sent: June 11, 2007 8:27 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Help with Cyrus
>
>
> Jan Sneep wrote:
>
> > Why is EVERYTHING in LINUX so complicated and SOOO
> frustrating to get
> > ANYTHING to work ?????
>
> You're trying to perform an _extremely_ complicated task, and
> you want  it
> to be simple?
>
> > I've been trying to get OpenExchange working, but that is
> proving very
>
> That's what I mean.  OpenExchange is pretty complex...
>
> > elusive, like everything else. One of the suggestions from the
> > OpenExcahnge forum is to get Cyrus working as that has
> helped some get the
> > OpenExchange installer to work. So today's task is to try
> and verify that
> > Cyrus is working properly.
>
> And cyrus is far more complex than any IMAP server needs to
> be.  Do you
> really have to have cyrus with OpenExchange.  I've used both
> Courier and
> Dovecot and both are simple (Dovecot, more so).
> >
> > file:///usr/share/doc/cyrus-doc-2.2/html/install-configure.html
> >
> > They talk about creating a user called cyrus and a group
> called mail,
> > don't actually tell you how to do this, but do warn you of the
> > consequences of not using those names?
>
> Oh boy.  It shouldn't be the job of any application to
> explain basic system
> administration procedures.  That said, cyrus _should_ have done that
> itself.  Both courier and dovecot do.
>
> > Anyways, the document then rambles
> > on about steps to install the software, but thanks to
> Synaptic, I think it
> > is installed and working. So I go to System ->
> Administration -> Users and
> > Groups and try to add a user "cyrus", but even though it is
> not shown as
> > an existing user, just "root" and "jan" are shown as users,
> I can't add
> > user "cyrus" because that name a ready exists.
>
> In which case, the Gnome user admin tool no doubt has a check
> box just like
> the KDE one which makes it not show 'system' users (I'm a bit
> surprised
> that root is shown, though - and why DO you have a root?)
>
> > First, you have define a "password" for the user admin for
> the cyrusadm.
> > With root make this:
> >
> > # saslpasswd2 -c cyrus
> > Password: TYPE YOUR CYRUS PASSWORD HERE
> > Again (for verification): RETYPE YOUR CYRUS PASSWORD
> >
> > The only password I know is the one I use for sudo
> commands, so I type
> > that one in and it works, or at least it looks like it
> does; but then the
> > next step fails,
>
> You're _creating_ a password, not using an existing one.
>
> > root at ubuntu:/opt/open-xchange/sbin# saslpasswd2 -c cyrus
> > Password:
> > Again (for verification):
> > root at ubuntu:/opt/open-xchange/sbin# cyradm --user cyrus localhost
>
> ...no idea...
>
> > IMAP Password:
> >               Login failed: authentication failure at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 119
> > cyradm: cannot authenticate to server as cyrus
> >
> >
> > And yet the next step in the instructions is to test an execute this
> > command;
> >
> > root at ubuntu:/opt/open-xchange/sbin# telnet localhost imap
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > * OK ubuntu Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-10ubuntu2 server ready
> > - logout
> > * BYE LOGOUT received
> > - OK Completed
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Yes?  That's exactly as expected.  You haven't _tried_ to login.
> Personally, I think those instructions were backwards.  You
> check that you
> can connect to the imap server, _then_ you check that you can
> login to it.
> >
> > So can anyone help? Does anyone know if I need to add a
> cyrus user and a
> > mail group? If so how do I add cyrus as a user?
>
> man useradd
> man usermod
> man groupadd
> man groupmod
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> derek
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