Created mailboxes are not showing up.

Casper Pedersen cpedersen at c-note.dk
Tue Dec 30 14:27:51 EST 2003


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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> >>Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> >>716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
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> >>
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net
> > 
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