Can't SELECT mailbox as admin on frontend (Murder)

[Etienne Goyer]

Ok, I found the source of my problem.  I am using altnamespace, and it
is setted on every machine in the Murder.  I found out by syslog()ing
variable inimpad.c that mailbox_open_header() try to open
user.admin.user.test123.  If don't set altnamespace in the backend, it
work.

Next question : are there implication to having altnamespace set to yes
on frontend, and to no on backend ?

Thank you very for your insight.


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> Since nobody answered yet, I guess this one is a little thorny.  I'll 
> resume the symptom to make the big picture clearer :
> 
> SELECTing INBOX as a user on frontend: work
> SELECTing user/<user> as a user on frontend: _don't_ work
> SELECTing user/<user> as an admin on frontend: _don't_ work
> SELECTing user/<user> as an admin on backend: work !
> 
> Cyrus imapd and sasl 2.1.15, altnamespace and unixhierarchysep == yes.
> 
> Any idea about what could cause such a situation ?  Even if it is just
> hypothesis, I am willing to investigate.  I am also willing to read
> code, if one can point me toward the file that may contain the possible 
> source of my problem.
> 
> The strange thing is that I have another Murder that does not show these
> behavior.  The configuration are pretty much similar, except for the
> version (2.1.13), and altnamespace and unixhierarchysep being set to 
> "no".
> 
> All your insights welcome ...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:24:17PM -0500, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > If you mean a telemetry log on the backend, here it is :
> > 
> > ---------- admin Wed Dec 17 15:13:41 2003
> > 
> > <1071692021<C2 Capability
> > >1071692021>* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE LOGINDISABLED MUPDATE=mupdate://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/
> > C2 OK Completed
> > <1071692021<. Select {12+}
> > user/test123
> > >1071692021>. NO Mailbox does not exist
> > <1071692025<L01 LOGOUT
> > >1071692025>* BYE LOGOUT received
> > L01 OK Completed
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:00:29PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I can't SELECT mailbox on a frontend in a Murder when logged in as an
> > > > admin account.  Example :
> > > > 
> > > > * OK frontend1 Cyrus IMAP4 Murder v2.1.15 server ready
> > > > . login admin *******
> > > > . OK User logged in
> > > > . select user/test123
> > > > . NO Mailbox does not exist
> > > > . logout
> > > > * BYE LOGOUT received
> > > > . OK Completed
> > > > 
> > > > Obviously, I have check user/test123 exist.  Actually, when I connect
> > > > directly to the backend where it reside, I can SELECT it no problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Also, as user test123, I can't SELECT user/test123 ("NO Mailbox does not
> > > > exist" too), but I succeed when I SELECT INBOX.
> > > > 
> > > > Could this be related to altnamespace ?  If not, what else could cause
> > > > this problem ?
> > > 
> > > I *believe* that these issues have been resolved in 2.2.  If you can 
> > > grab a protocol dump of what is being sent to the backend, it might shed 
> > > some light.  My guess is that the mailbox name is being sent in the 
> > > internal format, rather than the external one.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> > > Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> > > 716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
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> > 
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> > Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
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> 
> -- 
> Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
> http://www.LinuxQuebec.com       etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com

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