Ken,
Thanks for the prompt response. I tried that, restarted imapd, and
still get the same error. Any idea what module the code for this sits in, I
can take a look, too?
Thanks,
Michael King, Systems Administrator
Web International, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Murchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:02 PM
> To: Michael King
> Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: adding new partitions
>
> Michael King wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm actually experiencing the same problem. I'd not had any need for
> > partitions until recently (lots of growth). However, I can't seem to
> get
> > them to work, even after shutting down everything IMAP-related, and
> killing
> > any stray processes (there weren't any).
> >
> > I'm getting "Unknown/invalid partition" while using the example from the
> > O'Reilly book (Chapter 9).
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > Here's the pertinent imapd.conf lines:
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > defaultpartition: default
> >
> > # The directory for the different partitions
> > #
> > partition-default: /misc1/spool/imap
> > partition-1: /misc2/spool/imap
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > Here's a cut and paste example:
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > localhost> cm user/testmailbox 1
> > createmailbox: Unknown/invalid partition
>
> I'd have to check the code, but I'm guessing that partition names can't
> start with a digit. Try 'imap1' (or something) instead of '1'.
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison
> Systems Programmer
> Carnegie Mellon University
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