creating user-mailboxes without cyradm

[Simon Matter]

Philipp Leusmann schrieb:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to create INBOXes for users by IMAP-commands instead of using
> cyradm? I want to control the creation of mailboxes from a java-servlet.
> Another strange thing is, that I cannot use cyradm at all. I have set up
> cyrus to use sasl-auxprop authentication against a mysql-db. logging in to
> imap works fine using this authentication and the user listed as admin in
> /etc/imapd.conf was even able to create his own inbox using the
> CREATE-command in imap.
> But when I try to login to cyradm with this user it always looks like this:
> 
> ---snip---
> sh#: cyradm --user testuser 127.0.0.1
> Password:
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as testuser
> ---snip---
> 
> Anyone knows what is missing between 'with' and 'as'?

Maybe you should try something like:
cyradm --user testuser --auth login localhost

Simon

> 
> Help would be great,
>  Philipp