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<h1>Sealed System Design<a class="headerlink" href="#sealed-system-design" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Cyrus IMAP is designed to run on <em>sealed system</em>, meaning that no
user-related information needs to be available to the POSIX system,
aside from the user and group Cyrus IMAP itself runs under.</p>
<p>This eliminates the requirement for any of the service's users to hold
POSIX account information attributes, and eliminates the need for
Cyrus IMAP to maintain a super-privileged process allowed to substitute
user.</p>
<p>The message spool directory or directories are held privately by the
Cyrus IMAP software, and can be accessed by user through IMAP, POP, NNTP
or KPOP protocols.</p>
<p>This design concept vastly increases the efficiency, scalability and
security of Cyrus IMAP, and makes it easier to configure, maintain,
troubleshoot and administer a Cyrus IMAP environment.</p>
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<p>Since all files and directories are held by the user and group that
Cyrus IMAP runs under, any filesystem quota being used does not
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