INBOX Prefix problem with sasldb authentication

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Frédéric MERCIER wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have actually a cyrus IMAP server which work fine from a long time
> with an saslauthd and pam.
>
> I want to switch from salsauthd to salsdb2 to be able to use a secure
> authentication (DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5).
>
> My new configuration work fine for authentication, but with the sasldb2
> one, I don't have the INBOX prefix.
>
> For example :
>
> Authentication with saslauthd :
>
> myserver:~# telnet localhost 993
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5
> AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR COMPRESS=DEFLATE] myserver.mydomain.net Cyrus
> IMAP v2.3.15 server ready
> . login test mypassword
> . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID LOGINDISABLED
> COMPRESS=DEFLATE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE
> UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT
> SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE
> CATENATE CONDSTORE SCAN IDLE URLAUTH] User logged in
> . list "*" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.Administratif"
> etc ...
>
>
> Authentication with sasldb2 :
>
> myserver:~# telnet localhost 993
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5
> AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR COMPRESS=DEFLATE] myserver.mydomain.net Cyrus
> IMAP v2.3.15 server ready
> . login test at mydomain.net mypassword
> . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID LOGINDISABLED
> COMPRESS=DEFLATE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE
> UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT
> SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE
> CATENATE CONDSTORE SCAN IDLE URLAUTH] User logged in
> . list "*" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "user.test"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "user.test.Administratif"
> etc ...
>
> user.test is not set as INBOX Prefix. The result is that my MUA is not
> able to find my mails ...

It looks like test at mydomain.net is a cyrus admin, so it sees the internal 
namespace instead of the client namespace.

 	Andy