Hello Yossie,
I would like to let you know that by default Gentoo's version of cyrus
imapd does not enable the 'autocreate' features.
You will need to enable those in /etc/portage/package.use
I refer to you to the Gentoo Handbook on how to define USE flags.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo
I've been using the Mandriva (2006) version of cyrus imap (binary rpm
added by the urpmi command) for a few years. We have depended on the
autocreatequota value in /etc/imapd.conf to (a) allow us to create
an INBOX when the account has been authenticated (in our case through
a sql databas