Solution: Unable to open maildrop

[Kerstin Espey]

Last year, I had a question:

[...]
> But I'm not able to connect via POP3: 
>
>
> as9(ke): telnet imp 110 
> Trying 192.168.111.32... 
> Connected to imp.ibbone.helinet.de. 
> Escape character is '^]'. 
> +OK imp Cyrus POP3 v2.1.3-Debian(unstable) server ready 
> <424808546.1020438307 at imp> 
> user Kerstin.Espey 
> +OK Name is a valid mailbox 
> pass *** 
> -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to open maildrop 
> user Zulu 
> +OK Name is a valid mailbox 
> pass *** 
> -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to open maildrop 
>
>
> The other thing is, that I'm not able to send mail to the mailboxes. Perhaps 
> it is the same problem? 
[...]

As I got several mails with the same question since them, here is the fix:

the problem was, that I created the mailboxes with "cm Kerstin.Espey" but not 
with "cm user/Kerstin.Espey" After creating my mailboxes with "user/" in 
front of the name, everything works fine.
Dots in usernames are no proplems, as we use the option "unixhierarchysep".

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Hope that helps.

Kerstin