Cyrus - can't create user mailbox

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Alain,


Thanks for your advice.


> > $ cyradm -u cyrus localhost
> > Password:
> > localhost> dm user.satimiscyrus
> > deletemailbox: Permission denied
> >
> > I can't delete the mailbox created previously.
> 
> Because you need to give yourself the right before


Whether I have to run the command as root?


> > localhost> cm user/satimiscyrus
> > localhost> lm
> > user.groupware (\HasNoChildren)     user/satimiscyrus
> (\HasNoChildren)
> >
> > user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
> >
> > Still can't create the subdirectory.
> 
> I dont understand !


The maildir and subdir haven't been created. (\HasNoChildren)


> > $ sudo updatedb
> 
> in this case  'find' is more appropriate than locate
> 
> >
> > $ locate satimiscyrus
> 
> find / -iname  "*satimiscyrus*"


$ sudo find / -name "*satimiscyrus*"
Password:
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/u/user^satimiscyrus
/home/satimiscyrus



> > Send a webmail to satimiscyrus on Gmail.  The mail never arrives.
> 
> Is your MX pointers configured ? Is your SMTP reachable from outside
> ?
> Did you look in postfix log ?


Yes.

$ tail /var/log/mail.log 
Jun  9 19:11:28 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4753]: archiving log file:
/var/lib/cyrus/db/log.000000
0001
Jun  9 19:11:28 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4753]: done checkpointing
cyrus databases
Jun  9 19:11:28 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: process 4753 exited,
status 0
Jun  9 19:18:53 lampserver cyrus/master[4798]: about to exec
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
Jun  9 19:18:53 lampserver cyrus/imap[4798]: executed
Jun  9 19:18:53 lampserver cyrus/imap[4798]: accepted connection
Jun  9 19:19:42 lampserver cyrus/imap[4798]: badlogin: localhost
[127.0.0.1] plaintext satimis SASL(
-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
Jun  9 19:21:53 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: process 4798 exited,
status 0
Jun  9 19:31:36 lampserver postfix/qmgr[4188]: C18198781EC:
from=<satimisliu at gmail.com>, size=1834, 
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun  9 19:31:36 lampserver postfix/lmtp[4835]: C18198781EC:
to=<satimiscyrus at satimis.com>, relay=non
e, delay=7874, status=deferred (connect to
/var/run/lmtp[/var/run/lmtp]: No such file or directory)
* end *


B.R.
satimis

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