Why doesn't Cyrus put mail into boxes?

[Mike Jones]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 15:37, Mike Jones wrote:
 [...]
 > However, no mail ends up in the mailboxes underneath the
 > 
 > /var/spool/cyrus/mail directory.
 [...]
 
 Start with the logs. What does Postfix tell you? I think on Debian the
 logging goes in /var/log/mail.log - does it look like Postfix has
 successfully handed off to Cyrus?

Thanks for responding. This is what regularly appears in the mail.log file:

Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> master[15129]: about to exec /usr/sbin/ctl_cyrusdb
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: archiving database file: /var/lib/
cyrus/annotations.db
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/
db/log.0000000001
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: archiving database file: /var/lib/
cyrus/mailboxes.db
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/
db/log.0000000001
Aug 16 18:35:20 <hostname> ctl_cyrusdb[15129]: done checkpointing cyrus 
databases
Aug 16 18:37:28 <hostname> master[15130]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/pop3d
Aug 16 18:38:46 <hostname> master[15133]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/pop3d
Aug 16 18:40:04 <hostname> master[15139]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/pop3d
Aug 16 18:40:46 <hostname> master[15141]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/pop3d
Aug 16 18:40:47 <hostname> pop3[15141]: login: <remote client> cyrus plaintext 
User logged in
Aug 16 18:40:50 <hostname> pop3[15141]: Unable to locate maildrop for cyrus: 
Mailbox does not exist
Aug 16 18:42:36 <hostname> master[15142]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/pop3d
Aug 16 18:45:36 <hostname> master[15144]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
Aug 16 18:46:22 <hostname> master[15150]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
Aug 16 18:46:27 <hostname> imap[15150]: login: <hostname> cyrus plaintext User 
logged in

An exception to the regularity is the 18:40:50 intry, which was caused by a message 
sent to cyrus@<mailserver>. There is no Cyrus mailbox, so that went all right. 
Hence I assume this is the normal sequence of log entries you would expect?

Does this mean that the mailbox directory structure is simply a 'database' of 
mailboxes only used for look-up purposes?

What exactly do the authors mean by 'checkpointing'?

How do the cyrus user names correlate with email addresses? I wonder if this is 
where the problem is - is mailbox 'peter' the same as peter@<mailhostname> or 
peter@<domain> ? What controls that?

Assistance much appreciated. I would like to get this set-up to work :-).

Thanks
Mike

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