Created mailboxes are not showing up.

[JLB]

What, in the mailbox name?

I believe I was doing so... using the "$mbox" variable, which contained
"user.$USERNAME"...

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Casper Pedersen wrote:

> Some of my mail is missing.
>
> Have you tried to prefix the username with "user." ?
>
> If this does not work, then I'm also blank.
>
> Regards/Casper
>
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 19:40, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > JLB wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>What version of Cyrus and how is it configured?  Are you using the
> > >>altnamespace, unixhiersep or virtdomains options?  From looking at the
> > >
> > >
> > > Donno. I didn't set it up. :) Where do I look for that?
> >
> > /etc/imapd.conf
> >
> > You *really* should read the Cyrus docs so you have a basic
> > understanding of what you dealing with.
> >
> >
> > >>source, the only ways that you can get the "Invalid mailbox name" error
> > >>is if the name includes a wildcard, a trailing separator, is too long or
> > >>you're trying to create a mailbox in a different domain.
> > >
> > >
> > > OK, now THAT is weird. Since I'm sure I'm not doing any of that.
> >
> > You might not, but we don't know what the client is doing until we see
> > the telemetry.  Look for the 'configdir' option in /etc/imapd.conf and
> > then create a <configdir>/log/<userid> directory (writable by the cyrus
> > user), where <configdir> is the directory specified by the configdir
> > option and <userid> is the userid of the user trying to create a folder.
> >
> > The directory you create will start to fill up with telemetry logs (one
> > per connection) named by pid.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >>JLB wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I know that THAT isn't the problem. Since it worked BEFORE this doofus
> > >>>came in and completely changed the imap system (without providing any
> > >>>notes to anyone). :) Our copy of SquirrelMail HAS NOT CHANGED since the
> > >>>'old days', when we ran plain old despicable UW IMAPD, and things just
> > >>>worked. So since SquirrelMail has NOT changed (no, we haven't even upraded
> > >>>it!)... I know that's not it.
> > >>>
> > >>>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, JLB wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>Right -- squirrelmail still needs them to subscribe to the folders.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>What mailbox name are you trying to create?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>A valid name. You know, like "asdfasdf". All letters, only a few
> > >>>>>>>characters. I'm dense, but I'm not THAT dense. I tried many 'valid' names.
> > >>>>>>>"testing", "asdfsadf", "fnord", "foobar"... I didn't try to create a
> > >>>>>>>mailbox called "I at 5 * 5u2t/t 9898#" or anything ;)
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>Unless you are using altnamespace, you probably want to create
> > >>>>>>INBOX.whatever.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>In the Folder Settings page of SquirrelMail's server configuration (i.e.
> > >>>>>when you run "config/conf.pl" from the SquirrelMail base directory), it
> > >>>>>specifies that the default folder 'prefix' is indeed INBOX.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Ah, then you are creating INBOX.testing and so on.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I wonder if there is an extra character that shouldn't be there sneaking
> > >>>>in (like a newline).
> > >>>>
> > >>>>-Rob
> > >>>>
> > >>>>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > >>>>Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
> > >>>>Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>--
> > >>>Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
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