creating mailboxes

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

--On Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 7:17 Uhr -0600 Ian Beyer <manuka at nerdherd.net> 
wrote:

>| As it looks like you are not actually connecting to Cyrus.. that would
>| be the reason for mboxish files in your home directory.
>
> That's what I initially suspected, but here's the conversation with my
> system:

the date is missing, but I guess you did this just now ...

> schizo [178]# pkill xinetd
> schizo [179]# ps -ef | grep imap
> ~  andrea 12302     1  0 18:01:21 ?        0:00 imapd
> ~  manuka 17720     1  0 06:33:26 ?        0:00 imapd
> ~  manuka 13516     1  0 20:23:28 ?        0:00 imapd
> ~  andrea 12997     1  0 19:21:21 ?        0:01 imapd
> ~    root 11936  4097  0   Mar 06 pts/4    0:00 tail -f /var/log/imapd.log
> schizo [180]# pkill imapd
...
> schizo [182]# /usr/cyrus/bin/master &
> [1] 17961
> schizo [183]# telnet localhost imap
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK schizo Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 server ready
> . logout
> * BYE LOGOUT received
> . OK Completed
> Connection closed by foreign host.

OK.

> schizo [184]# cyradm --user mailadm localhost
> IMAP Password:
>
> localhost> lm
> user.manuka (\HasNoChildren)
> localhost> dm user.manuka
> deletemailbox: Permission denied
> localhost> cm user.ian
> localhost> lm
> user.ian (\HasNoChildren)     user.manuka (\HasNoChildren)
> localhost> quit

OK.

> schizo [185]# cd ~mailadm

Wrong.

> schizo [186]# ls
> user.ian           user.manuka        user.manuka.lists  user.manuka.test
> schizo [187]# ls -l
> total 8
> - -rw-------   1 mailadm  other        507 Mar  9 17:50 user.ian
> - -rw-------   1 mailadm  other        507 Mar  9 17:47 user.manuka
> - -rw-------   1 mailadm  other        507 Mar  9 17:47 user.manuka.lists
> - -rw-------   1 mailadm  other        507 Mar  9 17:48 user.manuka.test

Those were created *earlier*. They were not created just now. Note the 
timestamps.

> schizo [188]# cat user.ian
> ~From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Mar  9 17:50:05 2004
> Date: 09 Mar 2004 17:50:05 -0600
> From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at schizo.nerdherd.net>
> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> X-IMAP: 1078876205 0000000000
> Status: RO
>
> This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
> a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
> If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
> with the data reset to initial values.

Typical for UW imapd.

You will find your new Cyrus mailboxes in its spool directory.

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
--
Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18
Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK
Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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