Postfix Cyrus Web cyradm HOWTO

7.2. Creating the directories

There must be created different directories. Additionally you should change some

attributes of the filesystem

7.2.1.

/var/imap

cd /var

mkdir imap

chown cyrus:mail imap

chmod 750 imap

7.2.2.

/var/spool/imap

cd /var/spool

mkdir imap

chown cyrus:mail imap

chmod 750 imap

7.2.3.

/usr/sieve

cd /usr

mkdir sieve

chown cyrus:mail sieve

chmod 750 sieve

7.2.4. The rest of the directories

The rest of the directories can be created by the tool

mkimap

su   cyrus

/usr/local/cyrus imapd 2.1.12/tools/mkimap

7.3. Changing the filesystem attributes

When using the ext2 filesystem, you must set an attribute, that defines, that all

changes are immediately committed to the disk. With todays journaling filesystems

there is no need. If you are still running ext2 filesystems, I strongly suggest to

switch to ext3 filesystems. Ext2 and ext3 are fully compatible to each other.

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