renaming a mailbox fails

[Ben Poliakoff]

* Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de> [20061017 10:43]:
> Hello,
> 
> within cyradm I'm trying to rename a folder.
> 
> My goal would be to rename a mailbox from
> 
> user/test at test.de
> 
> to
> 
> backup/2006-10-17/test at test.de-1 or
> backup/2006-10-17/1-test at test.de
> 
> But renaming always fails, even with really simple renames:
> 
> rename user/test at test.de user/test2 at test.de
> 
> renamemailbox: Operation is not supported on mailbox
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> > lam user/test at test.de
> test at test.de lrswipcda
> 
> Is any right missing?

Set 'allowusermoves' to '1' in imapd.conf?  From the imapd.conf man
page:

  allowusermoves: 0

  Allow moving user accounts (with associated meta‐data) via RENAME or XFER.

  Note  that  measures  should  be taken to make sure that the user being
  moved is not logged in, and can not login during the move.  Failure  to
  do  so  may  result in the user’s meta‐data (seen state, subscriptions,
  etc) being corrupted or out of date.

Ben