In addition to reading about SpecificationsAndStandards, the following external links may be of interest:

Cyrus Resources

• Patches / Related Software
  • The Cyrus Software Web Site
  • The Cyrus-Utils Project, an non-CMU effort to develop tools for Cyrus SASL and Cyrus IMAPd.
  • Cyrusmaster - LDAP enabled Cyrus IMAP admin tool
  • Another collection of cyrus patches
    • Autocreate Inbox
    • Create on demand folder requested by sieve filter
  • openMailAdmin - web-administration frontend
  • The web-cyradm Project
  • A Webmin module to administer Cyrus IMAP
  • Enhancements to Mailadmin
  • Cyrus IMAP, Postfix, LDAP Virtual Hosting HOW-TO
  • An example notifyd written in Perl, uses POE
  • UKUUG LISA WC 2004: Scaling up Cambridge University's email service
  • A small collection of trivial patches - including one which improves interaction with Outlook Express and patches for replication, see the LISA paper link above
  • Cyrus IMAP HOWTO (also single-page) (update in-progress); by WilCooley^?
  • Introduction to Cyrus IMAP presentation by WilCooley^?

• Advanced Integration with MTAs
  • Sendmail and Cyrus Integration
    • RTCyrus3 It uses socket map protocol to make sendmail check if cyrus mailbox exists before accepting messages. It requires cyrus-2.2.3+ and sendmail-8.13. Version 3 has been specially designed for Cyrus Virtual Domains and "aliases with domains".
    • RTCyrus2 It uses socket map protocol to make sendmail check if cyrus mailbox exists before accepting messages. It may be better fit for some less typical situation than version 3.
    • cyrusv2 mailer (release B) It provides cyrusv2 mailer and additional cyrusv2d mailer. Unlike cyrusv2 cyrusv2d does not strip domain of envelope recipient.
    • ckuser_cyrus It uses socket map protocol to make sendmail check if cyrus mailbox exists before accepting messages. Like RTCyrus2, but easier installation.
  • Exim and Cyrus Integration. How to make exim use LMTP callouts to verify cyrus mailbox existence before accepting "RCPT TO:" command. It is specially designed for Cyrus Virtual Domains
  • Exim Wiki - Cyrus IMAP Collecting information on Cyrus/Exim integration.

• Software packages and systems that include CyrusImapd
  • Free
    • Simon Matter's Cyrus RPMs - Pre-packaged CyrusImapd RPMs for Linux

• • • http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ - cyrus-imapd backports for Debian Woody
    • Mandrake Linux - Comes with cyrus-imapd 2.1.x since version 9.2 (in contribs, in main starting from the upcoming 10.0). Rpms for 2.2.x and older releases of mandrake at http://perso.wanadoo.es/olivetti/cyrus/
  • Commercial
    • SuSE OpenExchange - Integrated mail server
    • MacOS X Server - Apple server software for Macintosh computers
    • Bynari Insight Server - Integrated mail server
    • SuSE Standard Server - Linux distro

• CMU specific Cyrus information

Other IMAP Related Documents

• The IMAP Connection.
• Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP vs. POP.
• University of Saskatchewan Email Recommendations (gopher)
• University of Pennsylvania Mail Task Force
• The Internet Mail Consortium

RFCs and Standards

• RFC2060 - IMAP4r1, or a more readably formatted version.
• RFC1939 - POP3
• RFC2033 - LMTP is the protocol used by Cyrus IMAPd 2.x to accept deliveries from MTAs

-- RobSiemborski^? - 24 Jul 2003