createmailbox Please Help!

[tsg]

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, tsg wrote:
> > > > tsg <tsg at bugalux.com> 03/09/04 06:41pm >>>
> > > >Hi!
> > > >I tried to create virtual domain mailboxes with cyrus-imapd v2.2.3 as
> > >
> > > it
> > >
> > > >written in install-virtdomains.html, but I got error:
> > > >
> > > ># cyradm --user administrator --auth login localhost
> > > >
> > > >test> create user.jill at example.net
> > > >createmailbox: Permission denied
> > > >
> > > >in the mean time I can create default domain users without any
> > >
> > > problems:
> > > >test> create user.jill
> > > >test>
> > > >
> > > >and users:
> > > >test> create jill at example.net
> > > >test>
> > > >Can somebody tell me what I did wrong?
>
> Based on your setup example.net is not your default domain.  My guess is
> you have 'virtualdomains: yes' and 127.0.0.1 resolves to
> localhost.example.net.
>
> For global admin you need to login as administrator at test.com:
> cyradm --user administrator at test.com --auth login localhost
>
> or
>
> Set 'virtualdomains: userid'
I use this option. So imapd shouldn't make any lookups.
I can create mailbox for 
user.rick
user.rick at example
rick at example.net
but not for 
user.rick at example.net
as it written in the virtual domains doc
>
> -Igor
>
> > > >My imapd.conf:
> > > >configdirectory:        /var/lib/imap
> > > >defaultpartition:       default
> > > >partition-default:      /var/lib/imap/default
> > > >partition-news:       /var/lib/imap/news
> > > >newsspool:            /var/spool/imap/news
> > > >admins:                 root administrator test at example.net
> > > >sasl_pwcheck_method:    saslauthd
> > > >#sasl_maximum_layer:     256
> > > >#sasl_minimum_layer:     128
> > > >allowanonimouslogin:    no
> > > >allowplaintext:         yes
> > > >#servername:             test.com
> > > >tls_cert_file:          /var/lib/imap/cyrus.crt
> > > >tls_key_file:           /var/lib/imap/cyrus.key
> > > >tls_ca_path:            /usr/share/ssl
> > > >tls_ca_file:            /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca.crt
> > > >#tls_require_cert:      yes
> > > >imapidresponse:         no
> > > >sendmail:               /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > > >sievedir:               /var/lib/imap/sieve
> > > >virtualdomains:         userid
> > > >#hashimapspool:         yes
> > > >defaultdomain:          test.com
> > > >
> > > >Please help!
> > > >Best regards. Sergios
> > >
> > > Hi Sergios,
> > >
> > > In your imapd.conf, the value of the "virtualdomains:" key should _not_
> > > be "userid"; it should be "yes" or "t" or "1"
> > >
> > > Mike.
> >
> > Hi Mike!
> > Thank you for your answer!
> >
> > From Cyrus-imapd documentation:
> > In order to accomplish this, Cyrus needs to know which domain to look in
> > when a mailbox is accessed. There are two ways in which Cyrus can
> > determine the domain:
> >
> >     * Fully qualified userid - the client logs in with a userid
> > containing the domain in which the user belongs (e.g test at example.com or
> > test%example.net) * IP address - the server looks up the domain based on
> > the IP address of the receiving interface (useful for servers with
> > multiple NICs or using IP aliasing)
> >
> > Both of these methods are active if the virtdomains option is set to on
> > (or yes, 1, true) and can be used in conjunction with one another. If the
> > virtdomains option is set to userid, then only the first method is used.
> > Note that a fully qualified userid takes precedence over a domain
> > obtained from the IP address.
> >
> > But I do not need any IP lookups. So I used
> > virtualdomains:         userid
> >
> > But anyhow
> > virtualdomains:         yes
> >
> > gives the same result.
> >
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