createmailbox: Permission denied

[Wylie Swanson]

Hello, and thanks to anyone who can provide more information on my “createmailbox: permission denied” problem.    I am running cyrus-imapd version 2.0.16 on a Compaq AlphaServer DS10 running RedHat Alpha Linux 6.2 baseline (now thouroughly built up with applications and compilers necessary to “do the job”… I have a successful (it would seem?) installation. I use pam authentication, with help from MySQL – which works successfully…. I can authentication against a Microsoft Outlook client using IMAP and TLS without problem. I did run into the Redhat install problem with cyradm,               Can't locate Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm in @INC (@INC   …but easily fixed this by doing the following:               cd <cyrus source tree>/perl/imap             perl Makefile.PL             make install   I did execute the mkimap setup early on during the installation process, as suggested by the doc/install manuals:               su - cyrus /usr/cyrus/tools/mkimap   My big problem now is that I cannot create a mailbox (I am logged in as a known admin to imapd.conf):               Hostname> createmailbox user.wylie             createmailbox: Permission denied   ==> imapd.log <== Mar  2 11:59:33 alpha imapd[21999]: myfetch: starting txn 18446744071562068011 Mar  2 11:59:33 alpha imapd[21999]: myfetch: reusing txn 18446744071562068011 Mar  2 11:59:33 alpha imapd[21999]: abort_txn: aborting txn 18446744071562068011   Here’s my imapd.conf             configdirectory: /var/imap             partition-default: /var/spool/imap             admins: wylie             sasl_pwcheck_method: pam             tls_cert_file: /var/imap/server.pem             tls_key_file: /var/imap/server.pem   Here’s my cyrus.conf               # standard standalone server implementation               START {               # do not delete these entries!               mboxlist      cmd="ctl_mboxlist -r"               deliver       cmd="ctl_deliver -r"                           # this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE             #  idled                cmd="idled"             }                         # UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/imap/sockets             SERVICES {               # add or remove based on preferences               imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5               imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1               pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=3               pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1               sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0                           # at least one LMTP is required for delivery             #  lmtp         cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0               lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1             }                         EVENTS {               # this is required               checkpoint    cmd="ctl_mboxlist -c" period=30                           # this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression               delprune      cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440             }     Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.   Best regards,   .. [ Wylie Swanson .: [ Datamaersk, Inc. :: [ Los Angeles