Permission denied with creating mailboxes

[Rudy Gevaert]

Manfred Rebentisch wrote:
> Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2007 12:47 schrieb Stephen Forster:
>> Manfred,
>>
>> Obvious question: is 'cyrus' listed as an administrator on the 'admins:'
>> line in imapd.conf?
>>
>> If not, do it then restart or reload cyrus.
>>
> Wow! Great! But after activating the line 
> admins: cyrus
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> localhost> cm users.testuser

It's cm user.testuser or if you are using the unix hierarchy separator 
(check your imapd.conf) it's cm user/testuser.


> createmailbox: System I/O error


> 
> syslog:
> Jul  7 14:01:19 server9 cyrus/imap[3946]: IOERROR: creating 
> directory /imap/mail: Permission denied
> 
> server9:/var/lib/cyrus# ls -al /imap/mail/
> ....
> drwxrwx---  2 cyrus mail 4096 2007-05-11 15:31 a
> drwxrwx---  2 cyrus mail 4096 2007-05-11 15:31 b
> 
> I think, I will find the reason for this. But the error messages of cyrus are 
> very poor...
> 
> Manfred
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Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
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