A. Installation

Abstract

The following sections provide information on installing Cyrus IMAP. It is expected that most people will be able to use binary packages (or rebuilt source packages) for their distribution; however, basic instructions for installing from source are included.

Obtaining the Files

Cyrus IMAP Homepage

The homepage is currently located at: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd

Downloading the files

You will need both IMAP and SASL. Download the latest files here:

ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail

Download cyrus-imapd-X.X.X.tar.gz and cyrus-sasl-X.X.X.tar.gz (where X.X.X is the latest release) into your temporary directory.

I will use /tmp as the directory I've uncompressed the files under for the rest of the examples.