postfix + cyrus + mysql; Mailbox does not exist

[Sarwar Ansari]

Mitu,

Thanks for help, the problem has resolved
you were right the problem was

in my /etc/imapd.conf

"unixhierarchysep: yes" was commented even though I was using

>hans.mueller.example.com<. type of login,


Thanks for the help


Regards

Sarwar Ansari
Indiaaccess

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> cmitrana at xnet.ro
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 2:18 AM
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: postfix + cyrus + mysql; Mailbox does not exist
> 
> 
> * Sarwar Ansari <sarwar at indiaaccess.com> [10-01-03 14:16]:
>  
> > Mitu,
> > 
> > > 
> > >  The error is because you don't have the user added with cyradm 
> > > in Cyrus. Are you having "unixhierarchysep: yes"in your 
> imapd.conf ?
> > > Otherwise you will not be able to add users to Cyrus with 
> "." in their
> > > names. It might help if you post your imapd.conf .
> > 
> > I have added this users in web-cyradm
> > also with cyradm the mailbox does appear in
> > /var/spool/imap
> > 
> > |-- sarwaransari
> > |   `-- ns3
> > |       `-- indiaaccess
> > |           `-- com
> > |               |-- cyrus.cache
> > |               |-- cyrus.header
> > |               `-- cyrus.index
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > imapd.conf 
> > -----------------------
> > postmaster: postmaster
> > configdirectory: /var/imap
> > partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> > admins: cyrus
> > allowanonymouslogin: no
> > allowplaintext: yes
> > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> > servername: ns3.indiaaccess.com
> > autocreatequota: 10000
> > reject8bit: no
> > quotawarn: 90
> > timeout: 30
> > poptimeout: 10
> > dracinterval: 0
> > drachost: localhost
> > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> > sievedir: /usr/sieve
> > sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > sieve_maxscriptsize: 32
> > sieve_maxscripts: 5
> > #
> > #unixhierarchysep: yes
> > #
> > #Added by sarwar
> > #altnamespace: yes
> > tls_ca_file: /var/imap/server.pem
> > tls_cert_file: /var/imap/server.pem
> > tls_key_file: /var/imap/server.pem
> > --------------------------------
> 
>  I'm not sure how it looks the directory hierarchy under Cyrus but :
> -- sarwaransari <---------- this looks like the mailbox 
> > |   `-- ns3                        |
> > |       `-- indiaaccess			 |
> > |           `-- com				 | <--- those 
> look like subfolders
> > |               |-- cyrus.cache    |
> > |               |-- cyrus.header	 |
> > |               `-- cyrus.index    |
>   
>  Can you post to "sarwaransari" mailbox ? Have you tried with an IMAP 
> client to see the account ?
>   
>  Also, it looks like "unixhierarchysep: yes" is commented in your
> imapd.conf.
> 
> hth,
> mitu
> 
> 
> 
>