Whether or not cyrus works with afs now, it does not seem to be a good fit
for your scenario. cyrus is a "black box" mail system. All the mail files
are owned by the cyrus user and live in filesystem trees designated as
cyrus "partitions". The daemons all run as the cyrus user and PAM
authentic
Cyrus was designed to use a local filesystem with Unix semantics
and a working mmap()/write() combination. AFS doesn't provide
these semantics so won't work correctly.
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/
share/doc/cyrus21-doc/html/faq.html
Is this still the ca
Hello, all.
We (hcoop.net) currently have Courier working using Maildirs stored in
afs (OpenAFS client, OpenAFS server). It's working quite well, except
for the fact that courier's authentication mechanism is extremely
kludgey and required a good bit of hacking in order to make it utilize
pam_af