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