Michael Salmon wrote:
> --On Friday, December 21, 2001 08:43:28 -0800 Dan de Haan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> In my experience netscape usually thinks that you meant Sent and not
>>> INBOX.Sent and fixes your preferences but it works anyway
>>> because it looks
>>> for INBOX.Sent if Sent isn't found. What can be a big problem
>>> is if someone
>>> with admin priviledges runs some MUA and succeeds in creating
>>> a Sent folder
>>> at the same level as user, netscape then never tries to use
>>> INBOX.Sent even
>>> though it cannot use Sent.
>>
>>
>> This is exactly what has happened to my system, but I am unable to
>> delete
>> the folders that teh root user created (permission denied). I tried
>> deleteing the folders on the disk, but they still show and are causing
>> problem with some MUA's. How do I get rid of them?
>
>
> You can delete them using cyradm. N.B. that root isn't necessarily a
> cyrus administrator, the admin users should NEVER ever read mail, if
> you do that sooner or later you will shoot yourself in the foot.
>
It wsa the cyrus admin user that did this.
I tried to delete the folders with cyradmin but it says:
rm: cannot remove `Drafts': Permission denied
same for the Sent Items and INBOX fodlers that Outlook Express
automatically vreated when the admin user loged in.
-Dan
