Very annoying IMAP problem (cyrus + Outlook)

[Olaf Fraczyk]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 12:20 +0200, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > you can investigate the problem further by activating cyrus telemetry  
> > logging for that user. Create a directory with the name of the userid  
> > in {configdirectory}/log . Cyrus will create files in there wich will  
> > contain all data send and recieved after authentication.
> > 
> >         Michael Menge
> 
> What do you call the configdirectory for cyrus ? I have different places 
> with cyrus (I'm using the standard package provided with SuSE Linux / 
> SLES 10) :
> 
> 1. I have a "cyrus" user with all binaries inside "bin" in the homedir
> 2. In "/var/spool/imap/user/" there are all user accounts with the mails...
> 
> But I think I understand, I have to create the "log" directory into :
> /var/spool/imap/user/dbucher
> which means :
> /var/spool/imap/user/dbucher/log
> 
> Is that enough and correct, no config to add or command in cyradm ?
> 
> I restarted cyrus but nothing appears in the log directory...

/var/spool/imap is not a config directory.

in /etc/imapd.conf you should have a line with configdirectory
definition eg:

configdirectory: /var/lib/imap

So you should create directory:

/var/lib/imap/log/user_name

Regards,

Olaf

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