Some hints for setting up virtual domains

First of all see the install-virtdomains.html file in your cyrus distribution.

Global admins

Pay attention to this in the documentation:

Global administrators are specified with an unqualified userid in the admins option and have access to any mailbox on the server. Because global admins use unqualified userids, they belong to the defaultdomain. As a result, you can NOT have a global admin without specifying a defaultdomain. Note that when trying to login as a global admin to a multi-homed server from remote machine, it might be necessary to fully qualify the userid with the defaultdomain.

In my case (cyrus was listening not on the hostname but on an alias) I had to provide the servername and defaultdomain parameter, and these had to be the same. A part of my imapd.conf:

admins: cyrus cyrus@mail.ugent.be
defaultdomain: mail1.ugent.be
servername: mail1.ugent.be
unixhierarchysep: 1
virtdomains: userid

I added users to /etc/sasldb2 with

saslpasswd2 -c cyrus@mail1.ugent.be
saslpasswd2 -c cyrus@mail.ugent.be

jura:/mail/mail1/etc# cyradm --user cyrus@mail1.ugent.be mail1.ugent.be
Password: 
mail1.ugent.be> lm
user/fabel@test.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)         
user/fiebel@test.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)        
user/foo.bar@mail.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)       
user/foo.fafa@mail.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)      
user/rudy.gevaert@mail.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)  
user/testuser2@mail.ugent.be (\HasNoChildren)     
mail1.ugent.be> quit
jura:/mail/mail1/etc# cyradm --user cyrus@mail.ugent.be mail1.ugent.be
Password: 
mail1.ugent.be> lm
user/foo.bar (\HasNoChildren)       user/rudy.gevaert (\HasNoChildren)  
user/foo.fafa (\HasNoChildren)      user/testuser2 (\HasNoChildren)  

As you can see the first user is the global admin, while the second user is the admin for the mail.ugent.be domain.

Replication and virtual domains

In 2.3.3 this doesn't work: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=39577

-- RudyGevaert - 17 May 2006