createmailbox: Invalid mailbox name

[Alain Spineux]

maybe because your login as cyrus at mail
In this case you can only manage *@mail addresses
Try to login as cyrus

Maybe you should set :

admins: cyrus

and also try

defaultdomain: mail


Regards

On 9/28/07, Chris Harms <chris at cmiware.com> wrote:
> So I've hit a wall in attempting to move our mailboxes onto a new
> server.  I've built/installed Simon's RPMs for 2.3.8 on x86_64.
> After tarring up my old mail spool (2.2.12 on x86) and dumping the
> mailboxes file to a flat format and copying to the new machine, I am
> unable to reconstruct any mailboxes.  It merely exits silently.
>
> I can create mailboxes in the default domain (cm user/test), but if I
> attempt to create virtual domain users e.g.
> cm user/test at domain.tld
> I get
> "createmailbox: Invalid mailbox name"
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> # imapd.conf entries
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> defaultpartition: default
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> fulldirhash: 0
> hashimapspool: 1
> duplicate_db: skiplist
> mboxlist_db: skiplist
> admins: cyrus at mail
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> virtdomains: userid
> defaultdomain: mail #(this is not the machine's name)
> unixhierarchysep: on
> tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> allownanonymouslogin: no
> allowplaintext: yes
> allowusermoves: yes
> loginrealms: mail domain1.tld domain2.tld
> ----
> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki
> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>


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Alain Spineux
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