Prerequisites and other notes
The following programs and/or packages are required.
* libsasl, version 2.1.7 or higher. To obtain libsasl, ftp it from
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu. Earlier versions of SASL will not work; please
get the latest one. Configure SASL so that it supports whatever
authentication method your site uses. Please pay careful attention
to the SASL configuration. This is the biggest problem that most
people have.
* Berkeley DB, version 3.0.55 or higher. Berkeley DB can be obtained
from Sleepycat. It is strongly recommended that libsasl be compiled
with Berkeley DB support, using the same version of Berkeley DB.
(If you have a Berkeley DB version mismatch, somewhat perplexing
crashes result.)
* GNU Make is required. Get it from the Free Software Foundation. It
is probably easier to find it via ftp.
The following programs and/or packages are required for specific
features. If you don't have them, certain features of the IMAP server
will be disabled.
* makedepend. A version is included in the makedepend subdirectory of
the distribution. Try and install it before installing the Cyrus
IMAPd. If it fails, the configure script will use a dummy shell
script instead of makedepend, and you should be sure to always give
the command "make clean" before "make all". If you don't mind
builds taking longer, this isn't a big deal and you can ignore any
makedepend errors.
* Perl, version 5. To obtain Perl, see the comprehensive Perl
archive. This is required for cyradm (written by Brandon Allbery).
It is also used for some installation scripts: you don't need it
but it may make your life easier. We recommend at least version
5.00502.
* OpenSSL, version 0.9.4 or higher. Required for STARTTLS support and
for IMAP/POP3 wrapped in SSL (the imaps/pop3s ports). Available
from http://www.openssl.org/.
* libwrap, from Wietse Venema. This will allow one to control who is
accessing what service, based on IP address. Available from
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/ in the tcp_wrappers package..
* Net-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP), version 4.2 or higher. Required for
SNMP monitoring of the IMAP server. Available from
http://www.net-snmp.org/.
* If you use AFS PTS support for groups, Cyrus still depends on
Kerberos and AFS. If you successfully compiled SASL with your
Kerberos library, it's likely that it will work well with Cyrus.
* We recommend using an MTA (mail transfer agent) that supports LMTP
(local mail transfer protocol). We use Sendmail and recommend
version 8.12.8 or higher, available from http://www.sendmail.org.
Others have reported success with Postfix.
The following programs and/or packages are recommended:
* flex - libsieve has two different lexical analyzers, and that's
hard to do with traditional lex.
* gcc - we build using gcc and the compiler options -O2 -g.