Mailbox does not exist question

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Fri Jan 25 15:04:15 EST 2013


Yes, the mailbox should be named user.test at mydomain, assuming you actually 
want to use virtual domains.  Do you have virtdomains set in imapd.conf?

 	Andy

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Charles Bradshaw wrote:

> Andrew
>
> Just a thought, should the mailbox name be 'user.test at mydomain' instead of
> 'user.test'?
>
> Here is a dump of /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> # hexdump -c /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> 0000000 241 002 213  \r   s   k   i   p   l   i   s   t       f   i   l
> 0000010   e  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 001  \0  \0  \0 002  \0  \0  \0 024
> 0000020  \0  \0  \0 001  \0  \0  \0 001  \0  \0  \0 320   Q 001   4 312
> 0000030  \0  \0 001 001  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 220
> 0000040  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
> *
> 0000080  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 377 377 377 377
> 0000090  \0  \0  \0 001  \0  \0  \0  \t   u   s   e   r   .   t   e   s
> 00000a0   t  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 035   0       d   e   f   a   u   l
> 00000b0   t       t   e   s   t  \t   l   r   s   w   i   p   k   x   t
> 00000c0   e   c   d   a  \t  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 377 377 377 377
> 00000d0
>
> I see a "\tuser.test" is the tab correct?
>
> Also curiously cryadm cannot delete user.test giving "Permission denied":
>
> # cyradm -u cyrus localhost
> Password:
> localhost> lm
> user.brad (\HasNoChildren)
> localhost> dm user.brad
> deletemailbox: Permission denied
> localhost> quit
>
> Something fishy here.
>
> Thanks for your help, Charles Bradshaw
>
> On: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:11:02 -0800 (PST), Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Charles Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:37:18 -0800 (PST), Andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Charles Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Output from cyradm:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ cyradm --user cyrus localhost
>>>>> Password:
>>>>> localhost> lm *
>>>>> user.test (\HasNoChildren)
>>>>> localhost>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the user does not permission to see the mailbox?  What does
>>>> "lam user.test" in cyradm report?
>>>>
>>>>  	Andy
>>>
>>> # cyradm -u cyrus localhost
>>> Password:
>>> localhost> lam user.test
>>> test lrswipkxtecda
>>> localhost>
>>
>> Okay, can we confirm that you are connecting as the user "test"?
>>  Check your syslog for a message similar to:
>>
>> imap[30372]: login: cyrus-fe3.onid.oregonstate.edu [128.193.4.145]
>> test PLAIN User logged in
>>
>> Perhaps we have a problem with virtualdomains.
>>
>>  	Andy
> ------- End of Original Message -------
>
> Andy
> Here is a complete /var/log/maillog for a session.
>
> Jan 24 21:16:06 dell2600 imap[4844]: accepted connection
> Jan 24 21:16:06 dell2600 master[5029]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Jan 24 21:16:06 dell2600 imap[5029]: executed
> Jan 24 21:16:36 dell2600 imap[4844]: fetching user_deny.db entry for
> 'test at mydomain'
> Jan 24 21:16:36 dell2600 imap[4844]: login: localhost [::1] test at mydomain
> plaintext User logged in
> SESSIONID=<dell2600.bradcan.homelinux.com-4844-1359062166-1>
> Jan 24 21:16:36 dell2600 imap[4844]: fetching user_deny.db entry for
> 'test at mydomain'
> Jan 24 21:16:51 dell2600 imap[4844]: fetching user_deny.db entry for
> 'test at mydomain'
> Jan 24 21:16:59 dell2600 imap[4844]: USAGE test at mydomain user: 0.009998 sys:
> 0.009998
> Jan 24 21:18:51 dell2600 master[4485]: process 4844 exited, status 0
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 master[5036]: about to exec
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 ctl_cyrusdb[5036]: checkpointing cyrus databases
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 ctl_cyrusdb[5036]: archiving database file:
> /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 ctl_cyrusdb[5036]: archiving database file:
> /var/lib/imap/annotations.db
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 ctl_cyrusdb[5036]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
> Jan 24 21:19:06 dell2600 master[4485]: process 5036 exited, status 0
>
> Also the telemetry log from /var/lib/imap/log/test at mydomain (I figured that I
> need to name the directory user at realm)
>
>> 1359062196>a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE ACL RIGHTS=kxte
> QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN
> MULTIAPPEND BINARY CATENATE CONDSTORE ESEARCH SORT SORT=MODSEQ SORT=DISPLAY
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE LIST-EXTENDED WITHIN
> QRESYNC SCAN XLIST URLAUTH URLAUTH=BINARY X-NETSCAPE LOGINDISABLED
> COMPRESS=DEFLATE IDLE] User logged in
> SESSIONID=<dell2600.bradcan.homelinux.com-4844-1359062166-1>
> <1359062211<a2 LIST "" "*"
>> 1359062211>a2 OK Completed (0.000 secs)
> <1359062219<a3 LOGOUT
>> 1359062219>* BYE LOGOUT received
> a3 OK Completed
>
> Charles Bradshaw
>


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