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

[Etienne Goyer]

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.
> > 
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