Permissions / Mailbox Problems

[Chris Hogan]

I know it's been said before and I betray my utter ignorance of how it 
all hangs together but...

I've inherited the set-up of a new server which has Cyrus installed, but 
I doubt ever running.

I followed some (admittedly old) instructions & got as far as setting up 
two mailboxes with cyradm. Couldn't use 'em because the DNS for the mail 
server was wrong.

Someone restarted the services.. and now my original mailboxes seem to 
have vanished & I get "Permission Denied" trying to create any new 
mailbox (I can run "su - cyrus", then "cyradm localhost" & login without 
problems)

We are trying to run a default domain & 3 sub-domains, as we want email 
addresses of the format michael at sms.domain.co.uk & jim at xmx.domain.co.uk

I have virtdomains set, I have Apache servicing the corresponding web 
pages.

If I try something list cm user.michal at sms.domain.co.uk I get "Invalid 
Mailbox" (I tried setting the unix hierarchy flag & using / but still no 
go).

ok, I've probably not said enough about the environment. It's Red Hat 
enterprise,fairly much straight out of the box. I can see lots of 
advice, but it all assumes you are starting from point X (or Y or W 
or...) nothing that I can say "ok, don't know where the other fellow 
finished, Cyrus is installed, but how can I configure it from scratch". 
I don't need (I hope) to recompile everything, I can verify a login for 
Cyrus admin, but I can't even create a mailbox.

Is there a proper idiots' guide to Cyrus?

Chris


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