creating mailboxes

[Edward Rudd]

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. 

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:26, Ian Beyer wrote:
> Wil Cooley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:36, Ian Beyer wrote:
> > 
> >>|> |  From the installation docs: "everyday users should not be
> >>|> | administrators".  Do not create an INBOX for an admin (user.foo).
> >>|> |
> >>|>
> >>|> Since i'm using shadow as my SASL auth mechanism, how do I do this
> >>|> without creating a user?
> >>|
> >>|
> >>| Having a user/password defined is different from creating an INBOX for
> >>| that user.  You can put 'foo' and foo's password in /etc/shadow, just
> >>| don't create 'user.foo' via cyradm if you define 'foo' as an admin in
> >>| imapd.conf.
> >>|
> >>|
> >>So how do I go about creating the INBOX for them? do I need to put it in
> >>/etc/skel for new users and manually create a directory for existing
> >>users? THe documentation would lead me to believe that cm inside cyradm
> >>is the way to do it, but that's not jiving with reality.
> > 
> > 
> > You don't.  The Cyrus admin user(s) should be a special, separate
> > account that does not receive mail directly.  I think there are some
> > fundamental issues you're misunderstanding.  Most people use the 'cyrus'
> > user, but that user usually fills two roles:
> > 	1. Provide a non-priviledged "system" account to run the system under,
> > much like Postfix running under 'postfix' and MySQL running under
> > 'mysql'.
> > 	2. Act as a priviledged user for managing mailboxes.
> 
> I understand this. I need to create INBOXes for my *regular users*, not 
> for the mailadm account. cyradm isn't doing that.
> 
> > Generally, there can only be one of #1, but several of #2, although
> > usually there's only one and it's the same for both users.  What that
> > account should /not/ be is a regular user account--one that is expected
> > to actually have a mailbox.
> 
> Right, cyrus runs as user cyrus, mailadm is the mail administrator account.
> 
> How do I get a login to cyradm without having a user account? I'm very 
> confused about this. It's got to be an account, but it can't be an 
> account. See why I'm confused?
> 
> > Why you saw directories in the administrative user's home directory is
> > rather mysterious.  Do you have '/home/mailadm' set as
> > 'partition-default' in imapd.conf?  BTW, the directories are not
> > actually Maildir, although they are similar in some ways (but totally
> > incompatible).
> 
> imapd.conf is pointing to /var/imap for partition-default. My point 
> about the "directories" was that they're not in fact directory entries, 
> but regular files - presumably something mboxish.
> 
> 
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