adding new partitions

[Ken Murchison]

Michael King wrote:
> Ken,
> 
> 	Thanks for the prompt response.  I tried that, restarted imapd, and
> still get the same error.  Any idea what module the code for this sits in, I
> can take a look, too?

Did you create /misc2/spool/imap and give it the proper permissions?


> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ken Murchison [mailto:murch at andrew.cmu.edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:02 PM
>>To: Michael King
>>Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>Subject: Re: adding new partitions
>>
>>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
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University