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# Configuring an IMAP service

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- General notes
- Cyrus IMAPD

### General notes

Please note that Imap configuration is not IronMailer specific. IronMailer does not require a specific setup for the IMAP service, however it relies on a standard setup (as it accesses the IMAP service through Sun's JavaMail API).

Nonetheless, we will post here any useful tips on Imap we find out about.

### Cyrus IMAPD

For this service, we use the following setup:

1. the user has a file called ".mailboxlist" in her home directory, containing at least one line as such:

       INBOX

   IronMailer will work even if this line is not present, however this should be the correct setup.
2. the user has a subdirectory mail in her home, where messages are stored. This is recommended to setup like this at Cyrus IMAPD installation time; if this is not done, mails will be stored in /var/mail instead
3. in the subdirectory where the users mails are stored, there exists a file called mbox. This is the default mechanism for storing messages by Cyrus IMAPD. If no file exists in the mail subdirectory at all, go to this directory and execute:

       touch mbox

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