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### 8.1.2 Cyrus IMAP server The Cyrus IMAP server has several unique features about it. These can either be a great boon or a horrible impairment, depending on your needs. That discussion is outside the scope of this document. Please see http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ (especially http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus-overview-TOC.html) to learn more about Cyrus's advantages and limitations. In Cyrus, a user's mailboxes are listed as subfolders of their INBOX folder. This allows for Cyrus to create shared folders for bulletin boards, Usenet access, mailing list inboxes (to cut down on the number of copies of the same message stored on that server), etc. However, this ability is often not used. In order to assist administration of TWIG and training of users, there is a method of hiding the "INBOX." part of all of your users' subfolders. Thus, any folder specific to a user (e.g. "INBOX.sent-mail") can appear more as the average user would expect (e.g. "sent-mail"). This ability extends to all parts of IMAP folder names, including creating a folder, listing folders in the "Go" menu, etc. NOTE: Previous versions of TWIG contained the setting $config["imap_cyrus"] which would need to be set to a value of "1". Shortly after version 2.2.3, it was discovered that TWIG development had progressed to a point where it was no longer needed. If it is in your config.inc.php3 file, feel free to remove it. It will not do anything beneficial any longer. #### Common Settings Some common settings for TWIG when using the Cyrus IMAP server include the following: $config["imap_path"] = "INBOX."; Set this to "INBOX." because TWIG will hide the "INBOX." part of all folder names from the user and the folder "INBOX" itself will be left alone. $config["imap_sentfolder"] = "sent-mail"; For a sent folder that is compatible with PINE. However, if you're using Cyrus your users aren't likely to be using PINE. Alternately, consider the following. $config["imap_sentfolder"] = "Sent"; For a sent folder that is compatible with Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator.

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