IMAPD.CONF(5)

NAME

imapd.conf - IMAP configuration file

DESCRIPTION

/etc/imapd.conf is the configuration file for the Cyrus IMAP server. It defines local parameters for IMAP.

Each line of the /etc/imapd.conf file has the form

option: value

where option is the name of the configuration option being set and value is the value that the configuration option is being set to.

Blank lines and lines beginning with ``#'' are ignored.

For boolean and enumerated options, the values ``yes'', ``on'', ``t'', ``true'' and ``1'' turn the option on, the values ``no'', ``off'', ``f'', ``false'' and ``0'' turn the option off.

FIELD DESCRIPTIONS

The sections below detail options that can be placed in the /etc/imapd.conf file, and show each option's default value. Some options have no default value, these are listed with ``<no default>''. Some options default to the empty string, these are listed with ``<none>''. It is also possible to override options by specifying them as <service_id>_<optionname>. One example is ``lmtp_admins'', which overrides ``admins'' just for the lmtp service. The <service_id> is the one you specified in the /etc/cyrus.conf file.

admins: <empty string>

The list of userids with administrative rights. Separate each userid with a space. Sites using Kerberos authentication may use separate "admin" instances.

Note that accounts used by users should not be administrators. Administrative accounts should not receive mail. That is, if user "jbRo" is a user reading mail, he should not also be in the admins line. Some problems may occur otherwise, most notably the ability of administrators to create top-level mailboxes visible to users, but not writable by users.

afspts_localrealms: <none>

The list of realms which are to be treated as local, and thus stripped during identifier canoicalization (for the AFSPTS ptloader module). This is different from loginrealms in that it occurs later in the authorization process (as the user id is canonified for PTS lookup)

afspts_mycell: <none>

Cell to use for AFS PTS lookups. Defaults to the local cell.

allowallsubscribe: 0

Allow subscription to nonexistent mailboxes. This option is typically used on backend servers in a Murder so that users can subscribe to mailboxes that don't reside on their "home" server. This option can also be used as a workaround for IMAP clients which don't play well with nonexistent or unselectable mailboxes (eg. Microsoft Outlook).

allowanonymouslogin: 0

Permit logins by the user "anonymous" using any password. Also allows use of the SASL ANONYMOUS mechanism.

allowapop: 1

Allow use of the POP3 APOP authentication command.

Note that this command requires that SASL is compiled with APOP support, that the plaintext passwords are available in a SASL auxprop backend (eg. sasldb), and that the system can provide enough entropy (eg. from /dev/urandom) to create a challenge in the banner.

allownewnews: 0

Allow use of the NNTP NEWNEWS command.

Note that this is a very expensive command and should only be enabled when absolutely necessary.

allowplaintext: 1

Allow the use of cleartext passwords on the wire.

To disallow the use of plaintext passwords for authentication, you can set ``allowplaintext: no'' in imapd.conf. This will still allow PLAIN under TLS, but IMAP LOGIN commands will now fail.

If you only list plaintext authentication mechanisms in ``sasl_mech_list'' and set ``allowplaintext: no'', only users on encrypted sessions (TLS or SSL) will be able to authenticate. On the other hand, if you list no plaintext authentication options in ``sasl_mech_list'', ``allowplaintext: yes'' would have no effect.

allowusermoves: 0

Allow moving user accounts (with associated meta-data) via RENAME or XFER.

Note that measures should be taken to make sure that the user being moved is not logged in, and can not login during the move. Failure to do so may result in the user's meta-data (seen state, subscriptions, etc) being corrupted or out of date.

altnamespace: 0

Use the alternate IMAP namespace, where personal folders reside at the same level in the hierarchy as INBOX.

This option ONLY applies where interaction takes place with the client/user. Currently this is limited to the IMAP protocol (imapd) and Sieve scripts (lmtpd). This option does NOT apply to admin tools such as cyradm (admins ONLY), reconstruct, quota, etc., NOR does it affect LMTP delivery of messages directly to mailboxes via plusaddressing.

annotation_db: skiplist

The cyrusdb backend to use for mailbox annotations.

Allowed values: berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist

auth_mech: unix

The authorization mechanism to use.

Allowed values: unix, pts, krb, krb5

autocreatequota: 0

If nonzero, normal users may create their own IMAP accounts by creating the mailbox INBOX. The user's quota is set to the value if it is positive, otherwise the user has unlimited quota.

berkeley_cachesize: 512

Size (in kilobytes) of the shared memory buffer pool (cache) used by the berkeley environment. The minimum allowed value is 20. The maximum allowed value is 4194303 (4GB).

berkeley_locks_max: 50000

Maximum number of locks to be held or requested in the berkeley environment.

berkeley_txns_max: 100

Maximum number of transactions to be supported in the berkeley environment.

client_timeout: 10

Number of seconds to wait before returning a timeout failure when performing a client connection (e.g. in a murder enviornment)

configdirectory: <none>

The pathname of the IMAP configuration directory. This field is required.

debug_command: <none>

Debug command to be used by processes started with -D option. The string is a C format string that gets 3 options: the first is the name of the executable (without path). The second is the pid (integer) and the third is the service ID. Example: /usr/local/bin/gdb /usr/cyrus/bin/%s %d

defaultacl: anyone lrs

The Access Control List (ACL) placed on a newly-created (non-user) mailbox that does not have a parent mailbox.

defaultdomain: <none>

The default domain for virtual domain support. Note that this domain is stripped from the email-address transmitted using LMTP, but it is not stripped from usernames at login-time. For imapd/pop3d, "user" and "user@defaultdomain" specify two different users. Please check install-virtdomains.html for details.

defaultpartition: default

The partition name used by default for new mailboxes.

deleteright: c

The right that a user needs to delete a mailbox.

duplicate_db: berkeley-nosync

The cyrusdb backend to use for the duplicate delivery suppression and sieve.

Allowed values: berkeley, berkeley-nosync, berkeley-hash, berkeley-hash-nosync, skiplist

duplicatesuppression: 1

If enabled, lmtpd will suppress delivery of a message to a mailbox if a message with the same message-id (or resent-message-id) is recorded as having already been delivered to the mailbox. Records the mailbox and message-id/resent-message-id of all successful deliveries.

foolstupidclients: 0

If enabled, only list the personal namespace when a LIST "*" is performed. (it changes the request to a LIST "INBOX*"

force_sasl_client_mech: <none>

Force preference of a given SASL mechanism for client side operations (e.g. murder enviornments). This is separate from (and overridden by) the ability to use the <host shortname>_mechs option to set prefered mechanisms for a specific host

fulldirhash: 0

If enabled, uses an improved directory hashing scheme which hashes the entire username instead of using just the first letter. This changes hash algorithm used for quota and user directories and if hashimapspool is enabled, the entire mail spool.

Note that this option can NOT be changed on a live system. The server must be quiesced and then the directories moved with the rehash utility.

hashimapspool: 0

If enabled, the partitions will also be hashed, in addition to the hashing done on configuration directories. This is recommended if one partition has a very bushy mailbox tree.

hostname_mechs: <none>

Force a particuar list of SASL mechanisms to be used when authenticating to the backend server hostname (where hostname is the short hostname of the server in question). If it is not specified it will query the server for available mechanisms and pick one to use. - Cyrus Murder

hostname_password: <none>

The password to use for authentication to the backend server hostname (where hostname is the short hostname of the server) - Cyrus Murder

idlemethod: %IDLE%

The idle backend to use for IDLE command.

Allowed values: no, poll, idled

idlesocket: {configdirectory}/socket/idle

Unix domain socket that idled listens on.

ignorereference: 0

For backwards compatibility with Cyrus 1.5.10 and earlier -ignore the reference argument in LIST or LSUB commands.

imapidlepoll: 60

The interval (in seconds) for polling the mailbox for changes while running the IDLE command. This option is used when idled can not be contacted or when polling is used exclusively. The minimum value is 1. A value of 0 will disable polling (and disable IDLE if polling is the only method available).

imapidresponse: 1

If enabled, the server responds to an ID command with a parameter list containing: version, vendor, support-url, os, os-version, command, arguments, environment. Otherwise the server returns NIL.

imapmagicplus: 0

Only list a restricted set of mailboxes via IMAP by using userid+namespace syntax as the authentication/authorization id. Using userid+ (with an empty namespace) will list only subscribed mailboxes.

implicit_owner_rights: lca

The implicit Access Control List (ACL) for the owner of a mailbox.

@include: <none>

Directive which includes the specified file as part of the configuration. If the path to the file is not absolute, CYRUS_PATH is prepended.

ldap_authz: <none>

SASL authorization ID for the LDAP server

ldap_base: <empty string>

Contains the LDAP base dn for the LDAP ptloader module

ldap_bind_dn: <none>

Bind DN for the connection to the LDAP server (simple bind). Do not use for anonymous simple binds

ldap_deref: never

Specify how aliases dereferencing is handled during search.

Allowed values: search, find, always, never

ldap_filter: (uid=%u)

Specify a filter that searches user identifiers. The following tokens can be used in the filter string:

%% = % %u = user %U = user portion of %u (%U = test when %u = test@domain.tld) %d = domain portion of %u if available (%d = domain.tld when %u = %test@domain.tld), otherwise same as %r %D = user dn. (use when ldap_member_method: filter) %1-9 = domain tokens (%1 = tld, %2 = domain when %d = domain.tld)

ldap_filter is not used when ldap_sasl is enabled.

ldap_group_base: <empty string>

LDAP base dn for ldap_group_filter.

ldap_group_filter: (cn=%u)

Specify a filter that searches for group identifiers. See ldap_filter for more options.

ldap_group_scope: sub

Specify search scope for ldap_group_filter.

Allowed values: sub, one, base

ldap_id: <none>

SASL authentication ID for the LDAP server

ldap_mech: <none>

SASL mechanism for LDAP authentication

ldap_member_attribute: <none>

See ldap_member_method.

ldap_member_base: <empty string>

LDAP base dn for ldap_member_filter.

ldap_member_filter: (member=%D)

Specify a filter for "ldap_member_method: filter". See ldap_filter for more options.

ldap_member_method: attribute

Specify a group method. The "attribute" method retrieves groups from a multi-valued attribute specified in ldap_member_attribute.

The "filter" method uses a filter, specified by ldap_member_filter, to find groups; ldap_member_attribute is a single-value attribute group name.

Allowed values: attribute, filter

ldap_member_scope: sub

Specify search scope for ldap_member_filter.

Allowed values: sub, one, base

ldap_password: <none>

Password for the connection to the LDAP server (SASL and simple bind). Do not use for anonymous simple binds

ldap_realm: <none>

SASL realm for LDAP authentication

ldap_referrals: 0

Specify whether or not the client should follow referrals.

ldap_restart: 1

Specify whether or not LDAP I/O operations are automatically restarted if they abort prematurely.

ldap_sasl: 1

Use SASL for LDAP binds in the LDAP PTS module.

ldap_sasl_authc: <none>

Depricated. Use ldap_id

ldap_sasl_authz: <none>

Depricated. Use ldap_authz

ldap_sasl_mech: <none>

Depricated. Use ldap_mech

ldap_sasl_password: <none>

Depricated. User ldap_password

ldap_sasl_realm: <none>

Depricated. Use ldap_realm

ldap_scope: sub

Specify search scope.

Allowed values: sub, one, base

ldap_servers: ldap://localhost/

Depricated. Use ldap_uri

ldap_size_limit: 1

Specify a number of entries for a search request to return.

ldap_start_tls: 0

Use StartTLS extended operation. Do not use ldaps: ldap_uri when this option is enabled.

ldap_time_limit: 5

Specify a number of seconds for a search request to complete.

ldap_timeout: 5

Specify a number of seconds a search can take before timing out.

ldap_tls_cacert_dir: <none>

Path to directory with CA (Certificate Authority) certificates.

ldap_tls_cacert_file: <none>

File containing CA (Certificate Authority) certificate(s).

ldap_tls_cert: <none>

File containing the client certificate.

ldap_tls_check_peer: 0

Require and verify server certificate. If this option is yes, you must specify ldap_tls_cacert_file or ldap_tls_cacert_dir.

ldap_tls_ciphers: <none>

List of SSL/TLS ciphers to allow. The format of the string is described in ciphers(1).

ldap_tls_key: <none>

File containing the private client key.

ldap_uri: <none>

Contains a list of the URLs of all the LDAP servers when using the LDAP PTS module.

ldap_version: 3

Specify the LDAP protocol version. If ldap_start_tls and/or ldap_use_sasl are enabled, ldap_version will be automatiacally set to 3.

lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 0

If enabled, lmtpd will convert the recipient address to lowercase (up to a '+' character, if present).

lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: 0

If enabled, lmtpd returns a permanent failure code when a user's mailbox is over quota. By default, the failure is temporary, causing the MTA to queue the message and retry later.

lmtpsocket: {configdirectory}/socket/lmtp

Unix domain socket that lmtpd listens on, used by deliver(8). This should match the path specified in cyrus.conf(5).

loginrealms: <empty string>

The list of remote realms whose users may authenticate using cross-realm authentication identifiers. Seperate each realm name by a space. (A cross-realm identity is considered any identity returned by SASL with an "@" in it.) Note that to support multiple virtual domains on the same interface/IP, you need to list them all as loginreals. If you don't list them here, your users probably won't be able to log in.

loginuseacl: 0

If enabled, any authentication identity which has a rights on a user's INBOX may log in as that user.

logtimestamps: 0

Include notations in the protocol telemetry logs indicating the number of seconds since the last command or response.

mailnotifier: <none>

Notifyd(8) method to use for "MAIL" notifications. If not set, "MAIL" notifications are disabled.

maxmessagesize: 0

Maximum incoming LMTP message size. If non-zero, lmtpd will reject messages larger than maxmessagesize bytes. If set to 0, this will allow messages of any size (the default).

mboxlist_db: skiplist

The cyrusdb backend to use for the mailbox list.

Allowed values: flat, berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist

munge8bit: 1

If enabled, lmtpd changes 8-bit characters to `X'. Also see reject8bit. (A proper soultion to non-ASCII characters in headers is offered by RFC 2047 and its predecessors.)

mupdate_connections_max: 128

The max number of connections that a mupdate process will allow, this is related to the number of file descriptors in the mupdate process. Beyond this number connections will be immedately issued a BYE response.

mupdate_authname: <none>

The SASL username (Authentication Name) to use when authenticating to the mupdate server (if needed).

mupdate_password: <none>

The SASL password (if needed) to use when authenticating to the mupdate server.

mupdate_port: 3905

The port of the mupdate server for the Cyrus Murder

mupdate_realm: <none>

The SASL realm (if needed) to use when authenticating to the mupdate server.

mupdate_retry_delay: 20

The base time to wait between connection retries to the mupdate server.

mupdate_server: <none>

The mupdate server for the Cyrus Murder

mupdate_workers_start: 5

The number of mupdate worker threads to start

mupdate_workers_minspare: 2

The minimum number of idle mupdate worker threads

mupdate_workers_maxspare: 10

The maximum number of idle mupdate worker threads

mupdate_workers_max: 50

The maximum number of mupdate worker threads (overall)

mupdate_username: <empty string>

The SASL username (Authorization Name) to use when authenticating to the mupdate server

netscapeurl: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/netscape-admin.html

If enabled at compile time, this specifies a URL to reply when Netscape asks the server where the mail administration HTTP server is. The default is a site at CMU with a hopefully informative message; administrators should set this to a local resource with some information of greater use.

newsmaster: news

Userid that is used for checking access controls when executing Usenet control messages. For instance, to allow articles to be automatically deleted by cancel messages, give the "news" user the 'd' right on the desired mailboxes. To allow newsgroups to be automatically created, deleted and renamed by the corresponding control messages, give the "news" user the 'c' right on the desired mailbox hierarchies.

newspeer: <none>

A list of whitespace-separated news server specifications to which articles should be fed. Each server specification is a string of the form [user[:pass]@]host[:port][/wildmat] where 'host' is the fully qualified hostname of the server, 'port' is the port on which the server is listening, 'user' and 'pass' are the authentication credentials and 'wildmat' is a pattern that specifies which groups should be fed. If no 'port' is specified, port 119 is used. If no 'wildmat' is specified, all groups are fed. If 'user' is specified (even if empty), then the NNTP POST command will be used to feed the article to the server, otherwise the IHAVE command will be used.

A '@' may be used in place of '!' in the wildmat to prevent feeding articles cross-posted to the given group, otherwise crossposted articles are fed if any part of the wildmat matches. For example, the string "peer.example.com:*,!control.*,@local.*" would feed all groups except control messages and local groups to peer.example.com. In the case of cross-posting to local groups, these articles would not be fed.

newspostuser: <none>

Userid used to deliver usenet articles to newsgroup folders (usually via lmtp2nntp). For example, if set to "post", email sent to "post+comp.mail.imap" would be delivered to the "comp.mail.imap" folder.

When set, the Cyrus NNTP server will add a To: header to each incoming usenet article. This To: header will contain email delivery addresses corresponding to each newsgroup in the Newsgroups: header. By default, a To: header is not added to usenet articles.

newsprefix: <none>

Prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names.

notifysocket: {configdirectory}/socket/notify

Unix domain socket that the mail notification daemon listens on.

partition-name: <none>

The pathname of the partition name. At least one field, for the partition named in the defaultpartition option, is required. For example, if the value of the defaultpartion option is default, then the partition-default field is required.

plaintextloginpause: 0

Number of seconds to pause after a successful plaintext login. For systems that support strong authentication, this permits users to perceive a cost of using plaintext passwords. (This does not affect the use of PLAIN in SASL authentications.)

plaintextloginalert: <none>

Message to send to client after a successful plaintext login.

popexpiretime: -1

The number of days advertised as being the minimum a message may be left on the POP server before it is deleted (via the CAPA command, defined in the POP3 Extension Mechanism, which some clients may support). "NEVER", the default, may be specified with a negative number. The Cyrus POP3 server never deletes mail, no matter what the value of this parameter is. However, if a site implements a less liberal policy, it needs to change this parameter accordingly.

popminpoll: 0

Set the minimum amount of time the server forces users to wait between successive POP logins, in minutes.

poppollpadding: 1

Create a softer minimum poll restriction. Allows poppollpadding connections before the minpoll restriction is triggered. Additionally, one padding entry is recovered every popminpoll minutes. This allows for the occasional polling rate faster than popminpoll, (i.e. for clients that require a send/recieve to send mail) but still enforces the rate long-term. Default is 1 (disabled).

The easiest way to think of it is a queue of past connections, with one slot being filled for every connection, and one slot being cleared every popminpoll minutes. When the queue is full, the user will not be able to check mail again until a slot is cleared. If the user waits a sufficent amount of time, they will get back many or all of the slots.

poptimeout: 10

Set the length of the POP server's inactivity autologout timer, in minutes. The minimum value is 10, the default.

popuseacl: 0

Enforce IMAP ACLs in the pop server. Due to the nature of the POP3 protocol, the only rights which are used by the pop server are 'r' and 'd' for the owner of the mailbox. The 'r' right allows the user to open the mailbox and list/retrieve messages. The 'd' right allows the user to delete messages.

postmaster: postmaster

Username that is used as the 'From' address in rejection MDNs produced by sieve.

postuser: <empty string>

Userid used to deliver messages to shared folders. For example, if set to "bb", email sent to "bb+shared.blah" would be delivered to the "shared.blah" folder. By default, an email address of "+shared.blah" would be used.

proxy_authname: proxy

The authentication name to use when authenticating to a backend server in the Cyrus Murder.

proxy_password: <none>

The default password to use when authenticating to a backend server in the Cyrus Murder. May be overridden on a host-specific basis using the hostname_password option.

proxy_realm: <none>

The authentication realm to use when authenticating to a backend server in the Cyrus Murder

proxyd_allow_status_referral: 0

Set to true to allow proxyd to issue referrals to clients that support it when answering the STATUS command. This is disabled by default since some clients issue many STATUS commands in a row, and do not cache the connections that these referrals would cause, thus resulting in a higher authentication load on the respective backend server.

proxyd_disable_mailbox_referrals: 0

Set to true to disable the use of mailbox-referrals on the proxy servers.

proxyservers: <none>

A list of users and groups that are allowed to proxy for other users, seperated by spaces. Any user listed in this will be allowed to login for any other user: use with caution.

pts_module: afskrb

The PTS module to use.

Allowed values: afskrb, ldap

ptloader_sock: <none>

Unix domain socket that ptloader listens on. (defaults to configdir/ptclient/ptsock)

ptscache_db: berkeley

The cyrusdb backend to use for the pts cache.

Allowed values: berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist

ptscache_timeout: 10800

The timeout (in seconds) for the PTS cache database when using the auth_krb_pts authorization method (default: 3 hours).

ptskrb5_convert524: 1

When using the AFSKRB ptloader module with Kerberos 5 canonicalization, do the final 524 conversion to get a n AFS style name (using '.' instead of '/', and using short names

ptskrb5_strip_default_realm: 1

When using the AFSKRB ptloader module with Kerberos 5 canonicalization, strip the default realm from the userid (this does not affect the stripping of realms specified by the afspts_localrealms option)

quota_db: quotalegacy

The cyrusdb backend to use for quotas.

Allowed values: flat, berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist, quotalegacy

quotawarn: 90

The percent of quota utilization over which the server generates warnings.

quotawarnkb: 0

The maximum amount of free space (in kB) in which to give a quota warning (if this value is 0, or if the quota is smaller than this amount, than warnings are always given).

reject8bit: 0

If enabled, lmtpd rejects messages with 8-bit characters in the headers. Also see munge8bit, which is only applied if reject8bit is not activated. (A proper soultion to non-ASCII characters in headers is offered by RFC 2047 and its predecessors.)

rfc2046_strict: 0

If enabled, imapd will be strict (per RFC 2046) when matching MIME boundary strings. This means that boundaries containing other boundaries as substrings will be treated as identical. Since enabling this option will break some messages created by Eudora 5.1 (and earlier), it is recommended that it be left disabled unless there is good reason to do otherwise.

rfc3028_strict: 1

If enabled, Sieve will be strict (per RFC 3028) with regards to which headers are allowed to be used in address and envelope tests. This means that only those headers which are defined to contain addresses will be allowed in address tests and only "to" and "from" will be allowed in envelope tests. When disabled, ANY grammatically correct header will be allowed.

sasl_auto_transition: 0

If enabled, the SASL library will automatically create authentication secrets when given a plaintext password. See the SASL documentation.

sasl_maximum_layer: 256

Maximum SSF (security strength factor) that the server will allow a client to negotiate. This corresponds to the max_ssf option of libsasl. Please check the libsasl documentation for available values.

sasl_minimum_layer: 0

The minimum SSF that the server will allow a client to negotiate. A value of 1 requires integrity protection (i.e. checksums); any higher value requires some amount of encryption. This corresponds to the min_ssf option of libsasl. Please check libsasl documentation for available values.

sasl_option: 0

Any SASL option can be set by preceeding it with "sasl_". This file overrides the SASL configuration file.

sasl_pwcheck_method: <none>

The mechanism used by the server to verify plaintext passwords. Possible values include "auxprop", "saslauthd", and "pwcheck".

seenstate_db: skiplist

The cyrusdb backend to use for the seen state.

Allowed values: flat, berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist

sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail

The pathname of the sendmail executable. Sieve invokes sendmail for sending rejections, redirects and vacation responses.

servername: <none>

This is the hostname visible in the greeting messages of the POP, IMAP and LMTP daemons. If it is unset, then the result returned from gethostname(2) is used.

sharedprefix: Shared Folders

If using the alternate IMAP namespace, the prefix for the shared namespace. The hierarchy delimiter will be automatically appended.

sieve_maxscriptsize: 32

Maximum size (in kilobytes) any sieve script can be, enforced at submission by timsieved(8).

sieve_maxscripts: 5

Maximum number of sieve scripts any user may have, enforced at submission by timsieved(8).

sievedir: /usr/sieve

If sieveusehomedir is false, this directory is searched for Sieve scripts.

sievenotifier: <none>

Notifyd(8) method to use for "SIEVE" notifications. If not set, "SIEVE" notifications are disabled.

This method is only used when no method is specified in the script.

sieveusehomedir: 0

If enabled, lmtpd will look for Sieve scripts in user's home directories: ~user/.sieve.

singleinstancestore: 1

If enabled, imapd, lmtpd and nntpd attempt to only write one copy of a message per partition and create hard links, resulting in a potentially large disk savings.

skiplist_unsafe: 0

If enabled, this option forces the skiplist cyrusdb backend to not sync writes to the disk. Enabling this option is NOT RECOMMENDED.

soft_noauth: 1

If enabled, lmtpd returns temporary failures if the client does not successfully authenticate. Otherwise lmtpd returns permanant failures (causing the mail to bounce immediately).

srvtab: <empty string>

The pathname of srvtab file containing the server's private key. This option is passed to the SASL library and overrides its default setting.

subscription_db: flat

The cyrusdb backend to use for the subscriptions list.

Allowed values: flat, berkeley, berkeley-hash, skiplist

syslog_prefix: <none>

String to be prepended to the process name in syslog entries.

temp_path: /tmp

The pathname to store temporary files in

timeout: 30

The length of the IMAP server's inactivity autologout timer, in minutes. The minimum value is 30, the default.

tls_ca_file: <none>

File containing one or more Certificate Authority (CA) certificates.

tls_ca_path: <none>

Path to directory with certificates of CAs. This directory must have filenames with the hashed value of the certificate (see openssl(XXX)).

tlscache_db: berkeley-nosync

The cyrusdb backend to use for the TLS cache.

Allowed values: berkeley, berkeley-nosync, berkeley-hash, berkeley-hash-nosync, skiplist

tls_cert_file: <none>

File containing the certificate presented for server authentication during STARTTLS. A value of "disabled" will disable SSL/TLS.

tls_cipher_list: DEFAULT

The list of SSL/TLS ciphers to allow. The format of the string is described in ciphers(1).

tls_key_file: <none>

File containing the private key belonging to the server certificate. A value of "disabled" will disable SSL/TLS.

tls_require_cert: 0

Require a client certificate for ALL services (imap, pop3, lmtp, sieve).

tls_session_timeout: 1440

The length of time (in minutes) that a TLS session will be cached for later reuse. The maximum value is 1440 (24 hours), the default. A value of 0 will disable session caching.

umask: 077

The umask value used by various Cyrus IMAP programs.

username_tolower: 1

Convert usernames to all lowercase before login/authenticate. This is useful with authentication backends which ignore case during username lookups (such as LDAP).

userprefix: Other Users

If using the alternate IMAP namespace, the prefix for the other users namespace. The hierarchy delimiter will be automatically appended.

unix_group_enable: 1

Should we look up groups when using auth_unix (disable this if you are not using groups in ACLs for your IMAP server, and you are using auth_unix with a backend (such as LDAP) that can make getgrent() calls very slow)

unixhierarchysep: 0

Use the UNIX separator character '/' for delimiting levels of mailbox hierarchy. The default is to use the netnews separator character '.'.

virtdomains: off

Enable virtual domain support. If enabled, the user's domain will be determined by splitting a fully qualified userid at the last '@' or '%' symbol. If the userid is unqualified, and the virtdomains option is set to "on", then the domain will be determined by doing a reverse lookup on the IP address of the incoming network interface, otherwise the user is assumed to be in the default domain (if set).

Allowed values: off, userid, ldap, on

SEE ALSO

imapd(8), pop3d(8), nntpd(8), lmtpd(8), timsieved(8), idled(8), notifyd(8), deliver(8), master(8), ciphers(1)

Allowed values: off, userid, ldap, on

CMU Project Cyrus IMAPD.CONF(5)