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

[Ken Murchison]

rupert wrote:
> another questions is:
> does the mysql database have to be on both machines or does the frontend 
> cyrus get its data from the backend and doesnt store anything inside its 
> local DB?

What MySQL database?  For authentication?  All user credentials need to
be verified on the frontends.  If you IMAP client(s) support referrals,
then they might also authenticate directly on the backends.  Otherwise,
only the "murder" user authenticates on the backends.



> I created a new domain and user on the backend with web-cyradm and on 
> the frontend/mupdate i can get the data with lm, but I cant connect with 
> a mail client.
> 
> On Jan 11, 2008 1:13 PM, Rupertt <rupertt at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rupertt at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ken Murchison wrote:
>>     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.
>>
>>
>>       
>     you mean like "ralf", well i tried "user.ralf" and it still does not
>     work.
> 
>     this is my current list:
> 
>     sam (\HasNoChildren)            user.sigi (\HasChildren)         
>     testuser (\HasNoChildren)         user.sigi.Sent (\HasNoChildren)  
>     user.box1 (\HasNoChildren)        user.sigi.Trash (\HasNoChildren) 
>     user.jon (\HasNoChildren)         user.tb0001 (\HasNoChildren)     
>     user.roy (\HasChildren)           user.test1 (\HasNoChildren)      
>     user.roy.Sent (\HasNoChildren)    user.test2 (\HasNoChildren)      
>     user.roy.Trash (\HasNoChildren)   user.testuser (\HasNoChildren)   
> 
> 
> 
> 


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