adding new partitions

[Ken Murchison]

Michael King wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm actually experiencing the same problem.  I'd not had any need for
> partitions until recently (lots of growth).  However, I can't seem to get
> them to work, even after shutting down everything IMAP-related, and killing
> any stray processes (there weren't any).
> 
> I'm getting "Unknown/invalid partition" while using the example from the
> O'Reilly book (Chapter 9).
> 
> -------------------------------
> Here's the pertinent imapd.conf lines:
> -------------------------------
> 
> defaultpartition: default
> 
> # The directory for the different partitions
> #
> partition-default: /misc1/spool/imap
> partition-1: /misc2/spool/imap
> 
> -------------------------------
> Here's a cut and paste example:
> -------------------------------
> 
> localhost> cm user/testmailbox 1
> createmailbox: Unknown/invalid partition

I'd have to check the code,  but I'm guessing that partition names can't 
start with a digit.  Try 'imap1' (or something) instead of '1'.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University