ChangeLog
2023-09-15 - Added link to Cyrus IMAP 3.4.x
2023-09-12 - Changed this one to be generic all-version info,
just link to the other ones
2023-09-09 - Split off 2.5 and 3.0 in to their own HOWTOs
2023-05-21 - Added Cyrus IMAP 3.0.18
- Added a whole other prerequisites list because there
are so many diffences between 2.5.x and 3.0.x
2023-04-23 - Added link to GitHub repo
- Added link to Wikipedia page
- Updated 2.5.x to 2.5.17
- 2.5.17: http to https for download URLs
- 2.5.17: sha1sum to sha256sum
- Removed 2.4.x
- Updated SSL/TLS certificate note, using Let's Encrypt
certificates
2019-01-10 - Updated download URLs
- Home page URL http to https
2018-11-18 - 2.5.10 -> 2.5.12
2018-07-26 - Changed gperf link from site to HOWTO
2017-07-10 - Updated useradd to also set the real name, use /var/imap
for home directory, /bin/bash for shell, and make it a
system account
- Added smmap, csync, mupdate to note about /etc/services
- Updated sieve port to 4190 (still set to 2000 from way
back)
- Use su -p and replaced ancient finger example with a
simpler one
2017-02-23 - 2.5.9 -> 2.5.10
- Note about lib64 being handled now (no patch, no LDFLAGS)
- Removed running 'make depend'
2016-08-31 - Updated Sieve GUI links, added Roundcube and the
client list at sieve.info
- Note that an updated version of the OpenSSL 64-bit patch
was merged to the cyrus-imap git repo
- Added note about adding telemetry logging
- I somehow forgot to specify 'make' by itself, oops
2016-07-25 - Removed 2.3.x
- Added 2.5.9
- Fixed release note URLs
- Added prerequisite links for gperf, libuuid, libical,
Jansson, CUnit, Valgrind, makedepend, ClamAV
- Fixed the transfig URL - xfig.org is 404
- Cleaned up prerequisite links
- Removed note makedepend which is no longer bundled or
required
- Also run 'make uninstall' in removal part at bottom,
never had it there because it was not GNU autoconf years
ago
- Use a patch with 2.5.9 to allow /usr/local/ssl/lib64
or OpenSSL paths via pkg-config
- Removed ancient note about pthread and BDB
- Fixed typo in running tools/rehash
2015-07-01 - 2.4.17 -> 2.4.18
- 2.2.13p1 -> 2.3.17
2014/04/27 - Added various notes about issues compiling it
- Changed 2.2.x download URL from cmu.edu to cyrusimap.org
2013/03/10 - 2.3.16 -> 2.4.17
2010/09/08 - Changed home page link from
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/
to
http://www.cyrusimap.org/
2010/01/10 - 2.3.13 -> 2.3.13p1
- 2.3.14 -> 2.3.16
2009/08/04 - Replaced englanders.cc with .us
- Pass --mandir=/usr/local/man to configure
2009/06/15 - 2.3.13 -> 2.3.14 (stable/current)
2009/02/28 - Removed 2.1.18
- Added 2.3.13
Aug 23, 2006 - 2.1.16 -> 2.1.18
- 2.2.12 -> 2.2.13
Dec 2, 2005 - Added note about pthread and the 2.2 version
Oct 7, 2005 - Added note about perl modules going into /usr/local/lib/perl5
(instead of /usr/lib/perl5)
- Added missing call to su for 2.1.16
Oct 5, 2005 - Updated miscellaneous notes, updated the SSL certs part
- Updated my rc.cyrus script (in cvs too)
Jul 28, 2005 - Changed md5sum and sha1sum verification to output OK (or
not)
- Moved source directory (see note <a href="?msd">here</a>)
- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
- Updated 2.2.x to use Berkeley DB 4.2.x
Mar 4, 2005 - 2.1.16 -> 2.1.18
- Added md5sum, sha1sum verification for those that don't
have gnupg
- Added version 2.2.12
- Updated just about all of the notes
- Updated my example config files and the init script
Dec 21, 2004 - Changed the link to the db4 howto to link to the bdb howto
Nov 26, 2003 - 2.1.15 -> 2.1.16
Aug 19, 2003 - 2.1.14 -> 2.1.15
- Create ~/installed with mode 700
- Updated prereq info for perl
Jul 17, 2003 - 2.1.13 -> 2.1.14
- Updated note about ucd-snmp
- Added notes about tcp wrappers
Jun 24, 2003 - 2.1.12 -> 2.1.13
- Updated prerequisites: added flex and tcp wrappers,
specified bare minimum version numbers where known
- Added notes about --with-ucdsnmp
- Added installation of the makedepend in ./makedepend/
Apr 11, 2003 - Modernized the howto
Feb 3, 2003 - 2.1.11 -> 2.1.12
Jan 5, 2003 - Updated to build with db4 4.1.x
- Set to skip downloading example config files if they
already exist
Dec 5, 2002 - 2.1.9 -> 2.1.11 (security)
- Added links to prerequisite howtos
- Added removal of old source dirs and tarballs
Nov 13, 2002 - Added a note at the bottom about Sieve web GUIs
Oct 3, 2002 - Updated again to build with db4, it works this time! <g>
- Updated db types in configure line per Rob/Ken suggestions
posted on the list
Sep 26, 2002 - Updated to build with db4
Sep 15, 2002 - First entry (first entry listed here...)
- 2.1.5 -> 2.1.9
- Added idled, I'm testing it out - if any mail clients that
I or family members use at home use the imap IDLE command...
- Added building of ucd snmp support (for stats)