As laptops and mobility become more effective and prevalent, your job as a system administrator is to provide users with easy, secure access to their data. IMAP is one way to allow users to receive email wherever they go. Cyrus IMAP is a popular server, but installation and configuration is a bear. Fortunately, Francisco Reyes has the answer in this tutorial on installing and configuring Cyrus IMAP with Postfix.
Running Cyrus IMAP on FreeBSD 5.4
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Alternatively, one might point their browsers to:
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10424 – Howto install postfix-cyrus-openldap-sa-amavisd with enabled SSL/TLS ver 2 – written around 2 years ago and it still works (I just installed using these instructions a couple of weeks ago).
Ottoman.
hmm i strongly prefer dovecot instead of cyrus.. but that’s just me
dovecot
(or, fpr some, binc)
How can a person disagree with such convincing dovecot arguments.
Why would I want to use Dovecot? Honestly. I am currently using courier-imap with cyrus sasl and while it does the job, I am not exactly happy with it.