Cyrus IMAP HOWTO: Cyrus IMAP Installation

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## 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:

`locate com_err.h`

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

## 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"

`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

## 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.

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