Permission denied creating mailboxes

[Simon Matter]

> I'm not familiar with using mkimap (if I've ever used it, I've forgotten),
> but I would double check to be sure that the user/group under which the
> imap
> server is the user/group that owns all of the server's files.  Not only
> does
> the server need file system permissions in the /var/spool/imap partition,
> it
> needs similar permission in /var/imap to manipulate various resources such
> as
> mailboxes.db.

At leat for my rpms, there is absolutely no need to run mkimap because the
rpm cares about everything. I don't know the FreeBSD port but I expect the
same for it too. Running mkimap may break some permissions, I guess.

Simon

>
> -- Rob
>
> --On Friday, October 22, 2004 03:27:40 PM -0400 Mike Nuss
> <mnuss at ammasso.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've just installed cyrus-imapd-2.2.8 using the srpm from
>> http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/ and I am trying to create
>> the initial user mailboxes.
>>
>> My imapd.conf looks like this:
>>
>>
>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>> admins: cyrus
>> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> hashimapspool: true
>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>> tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>> virtdomains: yes
>> defaultdomain: <mydomain.com>
>>
>>
>> I ran /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/mkimap as cyrus.
>>
>> Then I tried to use cyradm as "cyrus" to try to create a mailbox. I got
>> the
>> following error:
>>
>>
>> -bash-2.05b$ cyradm localhost
>> IMAP Password:
>>
>> localhost.localdomain> cm user.test
>> createmailbox: Permission denied
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Nuss
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>
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> Rob Tanner
> UNIX Services Manager
> Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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