Hello Andrew, AM> What you see as the Cyrus admin is a little different that what an IMAP AM> user sees. "user.test" is the Inbox folder, but user's access it as AM> "INBOX". Unless you have set altnamespace: yes in your imapd.conf file, AM> you should set your Root Folder Path to "INBOX." (note the period after AM> INBOX). I tried the "INBOX.", but even with the period after INBOX, I receive the same message in M$ Outlook Express ("your specified Root Folder of 'INBOX' could not neither be found nor created..."). With Mozilla Thunderbird, I just see nothing (no error message, no folders, no messages). So the presence of the period did not change anything.
>> I am trying to manually create an inbox folder for users, something >> like 'cm user.test.INBOX' and try to deliver one's main to this >> manually created folder. This is to put all the folder (Sent Items, >> Drafts etc) under the same 'user.test' and make it look good. I tried >> to find something on the Net but failed. Is there a way for me to AM> "user.test" is the INBOX, as seen from the admin viewpoint. Mail AM> delivered to user "test" will go into that mailbox. Subfolders would be AM> "user.test.subfolder" from the admin viewpoint and "INBOX.subfolder" from AM> the user viewpoint. But in the mail clients, they usually have something like "Inbox", "Sent Items", "Drafts" etc located under the same root. So by creating additional folder named 'Inbox' manually under user's INBOX (which is user.username), I tried to make it work without having user.username in my mail clients (which is not just sort of ugly, but also prevent the clients from being able to store appropriate messages on server). Is is a wrong approach? Most likely it is somewhat stupid I've done, but I really can not realize what that is. Also, as I mentioned in the previos "cry for help" message, I am unable to get a pop3 connection. The error message is !18.09.2003, 13:35:06: FETCH - Server reports error. The response is: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to open maildrop that makes me suspect that the problem of invalid (from client's view) INBOXes is somewhat related to the pop3 as well. I am reallyl confused now and have no slightest clue what to do further. here is my imapd.conf: configdirectory: /var/cyrus/imap partition-default: /var/cyrus/partition admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb sasl_mech_list: CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail sievedir: /var/cyrus/sieve tls_ca_file: /var/cyrus/imap/server.pem tls_cert_file: /var/cyrus/imap/server.pem tls_key_file: /var/cyrus/imap/server.pem and cyrusd.conf: # standard standalone server implementation START { # do not delete this entry! recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -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/cyrus/imap/sockets SERVICES { # add or remove based on preferences imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5 imaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=5 pop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=5 pop3s cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=5 # 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/cyrus/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 # this is only necessary if using notifications # notify cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/cyrus/imap/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1 } EVENTS { # this is required checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 # this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression delprune cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" at=0400 # this is only necessary if caching TLS sessions tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400 } Thanks a lot for your help guys. I am really getting close to give up, set pop3a back and never use IMAP anymore :) -- Best regards, Denis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]