Cyrus - can't create user mailbox

[Alain Spineux]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>
>> > Whether I have to run the command as root?
>>
>> NO, you shouldn't run this as root!
>> If you want to delete a cyrus mailbox you have to give the cyrus
>> admin
>> user the rights to do so (as someone else already stated).
>
>
> Noted with thanks.
>
>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Try to find out where you cyrus creates it's lmtp socket and point
>> your
>> postfix config to it.
>>
>> I don't know Debian but I think it should come with some docs to get
>> things to work. (Ubuntu ins mainly a copy of Debian so the same
>> should
>> apply there as well). Maybe some Debian/Ubuntu user can point you to
>> the
>> right docs.
>
>
> $ cat /etc/cyrus.conf | grep socket
> # UNIX sockets start with a slash and are absolute paths
>        # (you must keep the Unix socket name in sync with imap.conf)
>        lmtpunix        cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp"
> prefork=0 maxchild=20
>        notify          cmd="notifyd"
> listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1
> * end *
>
>
> Would it be /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp ?

You have somewhere int your postfix main.cf  "/var/run/lmtp", probably
a mailbox_transport=... or a local_transport=....
You must replace it by the cyrus path : /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

If smtpd daemon is chrooted this become more difficult !
You have 2 possibilities
- just try to replace the 'y' in master.cf by a 'n' to make smtpd not chrooted
- change the path in cyrus.conf to move the socket somewhere bellow the
postfix chroot jail. Be carefull cyrus must have enough right in the
postfix directory to create the socket.

>
>
> $ sudo ls -la /var/run/cyrus/socket | grep lmtp
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root  root  0 2008-06-09 21:26 lmtp
>
>
> $ sudo ls -la /var/run/cyrus/socket/
> total 0
> drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 80 2008-06-09 21:26 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 cyrus mail 60 2008-06-09 21:26 ..
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root  root  0 2008-06-09 21:26 lmtp
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root  root  0 2008-06-09 21:26 notify
> * end *
>
>
> How to link it to postfix config?  Thanks
>
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
>
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