Re: Problems creating mailboxes in 2.1.x

[John A. Tamplin]

Matt Sealey wrote:

I've just set up my 2.x server and it's working great (authenticating and
so on.. the most annoying part :) apart from mailboxes and folders.

From a clean system (cleaned out folders, ran mkimap), if I log in as
"cyrus", run cyradm, and cm user.bob, when I look at the list of
folders in Outlook, I get

Shared Folders
  user.bob


Which is odd.

If I telnet in, and do the following:

LOGIN bob sesame
SELECT INBOX

I get

NO Mailbox does not exist

Surely the user's INBOX is created as user.bob? I am currently reading
through the Managing IMAP book and whatever small amount of documentation
there is online. I used to run a 1.5 system which worked fine enough
until I decided Linux wasn't for me and FreeBSD would suit better for
performance and so on. I actually wonder if there is some difference
between 1.5 and 2.1 mailbox stuff that would explain this behaviour?

If you are using unixhierarchysep, then you would do cm user/bob. It sounds like you have unixhierarchysep set so the mailbox user.bob is a shared mailbox at the top level unrelated to bob's INBOX.

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John A. Tamplin
Unix Systems Administrator