Virtdomain question

[Peter Markom]

No, at least not a system user.
But somehow you should let cyradm (i.e. imap) know that the user exists(in 
my case in sasldb2, in your case in mysql).

Am Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:50:15 +0200 (CEST) hat Erik Norgaard 
<norgaard at locolomo.org> geschrieben:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Martin Ziegler wrote:
>
>> does that mean that there must be a valid user account before i create 
>> the
>> mailbox ?? To be honest i can't believe this because when i use imapd
>> without virtdomains this is not the case.
>>
>> > This means that imap does not find the user "foo at domain.tld" - I had 
>> the
>> > same problem using auxprop/sasldb, but can't help you with mysql.
>> >
>> > Am Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:17:30 +0200 hat Martin Ziegler 
>> <mz at newyorkcity.de>
>> > geschrieben:
>
>> >> Is there any HOWTO available (didn't found any suitable HOWTO)?
>> >>
>> >> I configured virtdomain as described in the documentation but for any
>> >> reason there are some problems. For example when i try to 'cm
>> >> user.foo at domain.tld' i get an 'invalid mailbox name" error.
>
> Sorry, I missed the start, I'm new on the list. I have setup
> virtual domains, more or less succesfull. That is, I have no
> problems except with the default domain, and that appears to be a
> client-side problem.
>
> 1) I have found that cyrus-imapd 2.2.8 only accepts defaultdomain
> if it is in /etc/hosts, ie:
>
> ::1		localhost.defaultdomain.tld localhost
> 127.0.0.1	localhost.defaultdomain.tld localhost
>
> Removing 'localhost.defaultdomain.tld' will let you set default
> domain to anything. Wierd...? Something about that cyrus does a
> reverse lookup.
>
> 2) Adding accounts for default domain will/should show up without
> @defaultdomain.tld, and you might as well just omit that part when
> you create the mailbox.
>
> 3) I have reported a bug with mozilla mail client, it can't get
> mail for mailbox'es in the default domain. Things works when I use
> squirrelmail.
>
> 4) I do not use mysql backend for authentication, but that shouldn't
> matter. I cannot confirm that you can't create a mailbox for a
> nonexisting user - in fact, i created 'testuser at somedomain.com'
> using cyradm.
>
> Finally: From what you write, it is not clear if you have problems
> adding a mailbox to the default domain or to some virtual domain.
> Maybe include the imapd.conf, be explicit about what is virtual
> domain and what is the defauld domain.
>
> Regarding howtos: There is a wiki, http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/,
> and see the doc's dir included with the source. True, the documen-
> tation is really sparce:
>
>     When upgrading from a single domain installation to a virtual domain
>     installation, the name of the existing domain (domain of the server
>     hostname) should be specified using the defaultdomain option in
>     imapd.conf. This allows users to continue to access their mailboxes
>     using unqualified userids. For example, if the primary IP address on
>     your server resolves to 'www.xxx.yyy.zzz', then set defaultdomain to
>     'xxx.yyy.zzz'.
>
> It would be nice to know if you are having trouble with your
> default domain or your virtual domain(s).
>
> Regards, Erik
>
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