Check the imapd.conf file in /etc... is cyrus the admin user? If not
login as the user specified after the admin: line and try to create the
mailbox again.

Paul Wiechman


Tim Arnold wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I have a challenging situation here at work: Our systems administrator has
> left with a lot of important knowledge, among other things administrating
> the cyrus imap server.
> Unlucky me has to backward engineer everything. I figured out some things,
> sometimes by looking at his bash_history file on what to do.
> We have qmail set up with cyrus imap server.
> I noticed this from the bash history file:
> useradd -s /bin/false -c "test3" -m test3
> cd ~test3/
> ls
> vi .qmail
> cp .qmail .qmail-default
> chown test3 .qmail-default
> exit
> cyradm localhost 24601
> 
> to I try the above and all is ok until I get to cyrus. This is what happens
> after the last line above:
> localhost userid: cyrus
> localhost password:
> localhost> cm user.test3
> command failed: Permission denied
> localhost>
> 
> I can't seem to find documents, help, or people who know anything about this
> server to help me.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> Tim Arnold

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