Mistake while setting up mailbox

[Nikola Milutinovic]

Stefan Fricke wrote:

>Under cyradmin you create a mailbox with
>
>cm user.username
>
>But I accidentally did cm username
>
>Afterwards I tried tio correct it by doing the correct statemend
>
>Now there are the mailboxes username and user.username which seems to blok 
>user login.
>  
>

Not true. Presence of "username" mailbox in the ROOT will not block user 
logins. First of all, a user can login event if there is no mailbox 
present - your "cyrus" user is logging in, right? The fact is that any 
mail client will AUTHenticate a user to the IMAP4 server and then try to 
SELECT his/her INBOX. So, what you see as a failed login might just be 
the case that mailbox is not there. On the other hand, your user's auth 
might have failed for a number of reasons.

>I tzried to delete the accidentally created mailbox but
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>sam username cyrus cd
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>causes an I/O error.
>  
>

This sounds bad. Have you tried to manually delete the mailbox? That 
would have caused this. Anyway, the sequence is correct:

cyradm> sam username cyrus c
cyradm> dm username

I've done this several times already :-) and it works. Anotehr option is 
(before you create a correct one) to rename the mailbox, but do not 
forget teh ACLs.

Nix.