Cyrus Cannot Delete Mailbox

[Schmehl, Paul L]

Well, the man page *is* a little confusing at that point, in its
explantion.  And I added to the confusion by mindlessly typing "d"
instead of "c" in my explanation.

If you read down to the listing of ACLs, you will see this:

  l   Lookup (visible to LIST/LSUB/UNSEEN)

  r   Read (SELECT, CHECK, FETCH, PARTIAL, SEARCH, COPY source)

  s   Seen (STORE \SEEN)

  w   Write flags other than \SEEN and \DELETED

  i   Insert (APPEND, COPY destination)

  p   Post (send mail to mailbox)

  c   Create and Delete mailbox (CREATE new sub-mailboxes, RENAME or
DELETE mailbox)

  d   Delete (STORE \DELETED, EXPUNGE)

  a   Administer (SETACL)

Notice that "c" is what grants you the power to create and delete
mailboxes.  By default, the "c" ACL is only set for the owner of the
box, not the admin.  So, you have to do this:

# sam user.ksikkema.steelcase cyrus c

Then you can:

# dm user.ksikkema.steelcase

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Department Coordinator
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: adam at morrison-ind.com [mailto:adam at morrison-ind.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:58 PM
> To: Schmehl, Paul L
> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: Cyrus Cannot Delete Mailbox
> 
> 
> >Read the source, Luke, read the source.  The docs specifically state 
> >that admins cannot delete mailboxes without first setting 
> the "d" ACL 
> >on the box.
> 
> -----AS IN THE EXAMPLE FROM THE FIRST MESSAGE -----
> >>sardine> setacl user.ksikkema.steelcase cyrus ad
> >>sardine> dm user.ksikkema.steelcase
> >>deletemailbox: Permission denied
> 
> >man cyradm
> > """dm"" mailbox
> >   Delete the specified mailbox.
> > Administrators do not have implicit delete rights on
> > mailboxes.  Use the setaclmailbox command to grant the "d" 
> permission to
> > your principal if you need to delete a mailbox you do not own."
> 
> >> I've got my Cyrus IMAP test install up and flying
> >> (temporarily on port 7777 so as not to bother the UW IMAP 
> >> server currently in use).  It is fast and works great.  But 
> >> I've got one problem.  I can't delete mail boxes.
> >> 
> >> $cyradm --user cyrus --server sardine --auth plain --port 7777
> >> sardine>lm
> >> ...
> >> user.ksikkema.steelcase (\HasNoChildren)                      
> >>          
> >> user.mhuisman (\HasNoChildren)                                
> >>          
> >> sardine> dm user.ksikkema.steelcase
> >> deletemailbox: Permission denied
> >> sardine> setacl user.ksikkema.steelcase cyrus ad
> >> sardine> dm user.ksikkema.steelcase
> >> deletemailbox: Permission denied
> >> 
> >> User "cyrus" has god-like power, yes?  Any tips on my I can't
> >> remove boxes would be much appreciated.
>