Permission denied with creating mailboxes [solved]

[Manfred Rebentisch]

Hello,

Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2007 19:49 schrieb Rudy Gevaert:
> Manfred Rebentisch wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Thats right too.

>
> > 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...
> >

So, it was the ownership of the root directory /imap which was root:root 
with "rwxrwx---". Changing to cyrus:mail solved the problem.

Thank you!

Manfred