Contoh konfigurasi imapd.conf:
postmaster: postmaster configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no allowplaintext: yes sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN servername: ns.comlabs.itb.ac.id autocreatequota: 10000 reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sievedir: /var/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail sieve_maxscriptsize: 32 sieve_maxscripts: 5 tls_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/cyrus.pem tls_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/cyrus.pem tls_key_file: /usr/local/etc/cyrus.pem
Direktory yg didefinisikan diatas harus dibuat terlebih dahulu.
mkdir /var/imap chown cyrus:cyrus /var/imap chmod 750 /var/imap mkdir /var/imap/sieve chown cyrus:cyrus /var/imap/sieve chmod 750 /var/imap/sieve mkdir /var/spool/imap chown cyrus:cyrus /var/spool/imap chmod 750 /var/spool/imap
Direktory lain yang diperlukan, bisa dibuat dengan menjalankan perintah mkimap
su - cyrus mkimap