6. Cyrus IMAP Installation

6.1 Uncompress

The following commands will tar and gunzip cyrus IMAP under /temp.

1. cd /temp
2. tar -zxvf tar/cyrus-imapd-1.6.24.tar.gz
3. cd cyrus-imapd-1.6.24

6.2 A note on com_err.h

When I tried to install cyrus IMAP, I got errors regarding the file com_err.h. My com_err.h was located in /usr/include/et. It needs to reside in /usr/include. Run the following command to make sure it is in the correct location: [MDN Docs: Keras]

locate com_err.h

This will show you where the file is. If it is under .:: truebriton.co.uk ::. /usr/include, you can skip to the next section. If it is in another directory, just copy it to .:: writeablog.net ::. /usr/include. If it doesn't exist, download it here: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~jnilsson/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/com_err .:: zb3.org ::. .

6.3 Configure

./configure --with-auth=unix

6.4 Adding the default user

Cyrus requires a user to own its files. The default user is cyrus. The following command adds a user cyrus with the group of "mail" .:: 166bet.website3.me ::.

useradd -g mail cyrus

You'll want to set the password for user cyrus.

passwd cyrus

Type in the password you desire cyrus to have each time you are prompted .:: chromewebstore.google.com ::. .:: blogfreely.net ::. [What people say about Lua] .:: cm88group.blog5.net ::.

6.5 Building the files

1. make depend
2. make all CFLAGS=-O
3. make install

That's it! You're ready to configure Cyrus IMAP.