Postfix Cyrus Web cyradm HOWTO

1.2. Why I wrote this document

There are different approaches on how to set up different mailsystems. Most

documents that are available are related to Sendmail, procmail, WU IMAPd and

friends. These packages are very good but are unfortunately very inflexible in their

user administration.

For a long time I was testing alternative MTA's like qmail, postfix and exim, in

conjunction with IMAP/POP servers like Cyrus, vpopmail, Courier IMAP and

others.

At the end of the day, from my point of view the couple Postfix/Cyrus seems to be

the most flexible and best performing solution.

All these combinations of software had one thing in common: their was very little

documentation available describing how these packages work together with each

other. To install the software, lot of effort has be spent to get all information needed

to get all the software running.

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