Managing IMAP

Chapter 9. Cyrus System Administration

Now that you’ve installed and configured the Cyrus server, you’re faced with maintaining it. This chapter covers the basics of managing a Cyrus system on a day-to-day basis. We will walk through examples of how to create, delete, and list the properties of mailboxes using cyradm, the Cyrus administration tool. We will also see examples of how to use cyradm to manage existing mailboxes. Cyrus administrators are often faced with the task of creating, deleting, or modifying a batch of accounts. Examples of batch cyradm scripts are shown. We will also see examples of how to add and remove partitions to and from the Cyrus mailstore. Shared folders and bulletin boards are valuable features of the Cyrus server. We will see examples of how to set up and manage both.

Cyrus System Administration with cyradm

cyradm is a Tcl-based client for performing system administration on the Cyrus server. cyradm can be run in either interactive mode or batch mode. We will look at interactive mode first, and cover batch operations later in the chapter. Note that the information contained in this chapter is not intended to be a comprehensive account of cyradm —there are cyradm command options that are rarely used. See the manual page, cyradm (1), or Appendix A, Conversion from Berkeley Mail Format to Cyrus: Tools , for the nitty-gritty details. The objective here is to cover the most common tasks that Cyrus administrators encounter.

To start cyradm in ...