Cyrus IMAP is a popular email server used to store and manage messages. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Cyrus IMAP on POP! OS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation process, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Before installing Cyrus IMAP, ensure that your system is up to date by running the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Before installing Cyrus IMAP, you need to install the following dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool libssl-dev \
zlib1g-dev libkrb5-dev libpam0g-dev libldap2-dev libsqlite3-dev \
libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-all
You can download the latest version of Cyrus IMAP from the official website, https://www.cyrusimap.org/. Once downloaded, navigate to the downloaded directory in the terminal.
To install Cyrus IMAP, run the following commands:
tar -xzvf cyrus-imapd-X.X.X.tar.gz
cd cyrus-imapd-X.X.X
./configure --with-pgsql --with-mysql --with-sqlite --with-auth=unix
make
sudo make install
Replace X.X.X with the version number of Cyrus IMAP that you downloaded.
After installing Cyrus IMAP, you need to configure it. To do so, run the following command:
sudo /usr/local/cyrus/bin/mkimap
To start Cyrus IMAP, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start cyrus-imapd.service
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured Cyrus IMAP on POP! OS Latest. You can now use it to store and manage messages.
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