Mailbox directory structure

Michael Menge michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Sep 15 08:02:38 EDT 2010


Quoting Artur Kaminski <my.home.my.castle at gmail.com>:

> Hey all,
>
> I installed imapd server successfully, and moved configuration from old one,
> but then accidentally loaded another server's configuration from puppet. Now
> Cyrus looks for user mailboxes in
>
> User       Mailbox
> aaaa       /var/spool/imap/a/aaaa
> user.aaaa  /var/spool/imap/u/user^aaaa
>
> (checked using cyradmin, with creating the mailboxes above)
>
>
> Actual mailbox for hypothetical user is in /var/spool/imap/a/users/aaaa
> (moved from old server).
>
> In effect Postfix gets response "5.1.1 Mailbox not found" to all requests,
> including root.
>
The option unixhierarchysep changes the hierarchy seperatror from . to /
The . is representet as ^ in filesystem.


> I can log in using IMAP.
> I can't increase Cyrus logging.

Cyrus logs everything to Syslog, you have to change your syslog config
to change the loglevel.


   Michael


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