creating mailboxes

[Ian Beyer]

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Edward Rudd wrote:

| try running this
| telnet localhost imap
| 123 logout
|
| and see what shows up from the IMAP server.. That will tell you if you
| are connecting to Cyrus or another mail service on the computer..
| It should show up something like this..
| * OK myhost.mydomain.tld Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 server ready
|
| 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:


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 [181]# ps -ef | grep sasl
~    root 12106 12102  0 17:43:30 ?        0:00 saslauthd -a shadow
~    root 12102     1  0 17:43:29 ?        0:00 saslauthd -a shadow
~    root 12103 12102  0 17:43:29 ?        0:00 saslauthd -a shadow
~    root 12105 12102  0 17:43:30 ?        0:00 saslauthd -a shadow
~    root 12104 12102  0 17:43:30 ?        0:00 saslauthd -a shadow
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.
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
schizo [185]# cd ~mailadm
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
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.

schizo [189]# cyradm --user mailadm localhost
IMAP Password:

localhost> lm
user.ian (\HasNoChildren)     user.manuka (\HasNoChildren)
localhost> quit


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