createmailbox: System I/O error

[Tim Pushor]

I'm no expert, but I would check the file permissions on both 
/var/spool/imap and /var/imap

Tim

Jay Drake wrote:

> It now seems as though things are running and I am trying to create 
> mailbox for my initial users. My current imapd.conf is:
>
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus jdrake
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> allowplaintext: 1
>
> and I have managed to get into cyradm with the following at the 
> command line:
>
> cyradm --user myusername --server mail.myrealdomain.com --auth plain
>
> (which then prompts me for my password.)
>
> Having authenticated in this way, I then issue the command:
>
> cm user.myusername
>
> and receive:
>
> createmailbox: System I/O error
>
> This does not appear to put anything into my auth.log or imapd.log and 
> I a at a complete loss as for what I should do to fix this... :/
>
> TIA,
>
> Jay Drake
> outoftheashes at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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