cyrus murder and some unclear things(cant create mailbox from frontend)

[Ken Murchison]

rupert wrote:
> Hello first,
> I was able to set up an murder cluster with one backend and a frontend 
> which also acts as a mupdate server.
> i could get the mailbox accounts from the backend, which was a 
> standalone before.
> I read that now the murder is running i should "only" create accounts on 
> the frontend and dont do anything manually on the backend, right?
> 
> When I now create a user with web-cyradm on the frontend it creates the 
> entry in the DB, but the logfile says:
> 
> Jan 11 12:34:02 mail2 mupdate[2166]: cmd_set(fd:18, user.ralf)
> Jan 11 12:34:02 mail2 imap[2183]: mupdate NO response: mailbox already 
> exists
> Jan 11 12:34:02 mail2 imap[2183]: MUPDATE: can't reserve mailbox entry 
> for 'user.ralf'
> Jan 11 12:34:02 mail2 imap[2183]: autocreateinbox: User ralf, INBOX 
> failed. unable to reserve mailbox on mupdate server
> 
> 
> when i try to add the user with "cm ralf" i get a permission denied 
> error in the cyradm console.
> 
> i could add a new mailbox on the backend by hand and when I do a "lm" on 
> the frontend the new account gets listed there.
> 
> So how can I proceed?


Toplevel mailboxes MUST be created on the backend.


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University