cannot retrieve mail in desktop client

Thu Jun 30 12:36:34 EDT 2011

Created a log file to see what is going on this is the results, I believe I 
see a no permission denied, is this the permissions on the mailbox?
>1309447583>1 OK User logged in^M
<1309447583<2 CAPABILITY^M
>1309447583>* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ 
>MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN 
>MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES 
>ANNOTATEMORE IDLE LOGINDISABLED X-NETSCAPE^M
2 OK Completed^M
<1309447583<3 ID ("name" "iPhone Mail" "version" "8J2" "os" "iOS" 
"os-version" "4.3.3 (8J2)")^M
>1309447583>* ID ("name" "Cyrus IMAPD" "version" "v2.2.12 2005/02/14 
>16:43:51" "vendor" "Project Cyrus" "support-url" 
>"http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus" "os" "Linux" "os-version" 
>"2.6.16.46-0.12-default" "environment" "Built w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.21; Running 
>w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.21; Built w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (March 
>28, 2007); Running w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (June 16, 
>2006); Built w/OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005; Running w/OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 
>2005; CMU Sieve 2.2; DRAC; TCP Wrappers; mmap = shared; lock = fcntl; 
>nonblock = fcntl; auth = unix; idle = idled")^M
3 OK Completed^M
<1309447583<4 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309447583>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
4 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309447583<5 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309447583>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
5 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309447583<6 CREATE Notes^M
>1309447583>6 NO Permission denied^M
<1309448191<7 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309448191>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
7 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309448191<8 CREATE Notes^M
>1309448191>8 NO Permission denied^M
<1309448793<9 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309448793>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
9 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309448793<10 CREATE Notes^M
>1309448793>10 NO Permission denied^M
<1309449523<11 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309449523>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
11 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309449523<12 CREATE Notes^M
>1309449523>12 NO Permission denied^M
<1309450127<13 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309450127>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
13 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309450127<14 CREATE Notes^M
>1309450127>14 NO Permission denied^M
<1309450730<15 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309450730>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
15 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309450730<16 CREATE Notes^M
>1309450730>16 NO Permission denied^M
<1309451332<17 LIST "" "*"^M
>1309451332>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M
17 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M
<1309451332<18 CREATE Notes^M
>1309451332>18 NO Permission denied^M


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From: "JonL" <jonl711 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:11 PM
To: <awilliam at whitemice.org>; <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client

> after adding the required command in main.cf
> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>
> I'm now getting the following error
>
> Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/qmgr[13978]: 05C4A19B8A:
> from=<839556+2D3-jlmiller=mmtnetworks.com.au at lists.techtarget.com>,
> size=4281, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/lmtp[14146]: 05C4A19B8A:
> to=<jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>, relay=none, delay=3, status=deferred
> (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: 
> Permission
> denied)
>
> I'm using:
> Suse Linux Enterprise Server v 10 SP1 (will be moving to SP4)
>
> Unfortunately I find the documentation not as clear as I had hoped.
>
> Also do I need to make any changes to my transport table?
>
> Regards
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam at whitemice.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:45 PM
> To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client
>
>> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:22 +0800, JonL wrote:
>>> g'day all
>>> I'm new hear so please bear with me... this is my first cyru-imap
>>> install
>>
>> Congratulations.
>>
>>> Issue:
>>> I've had to rebuild my linux server mail server due to a hdd crash.
>>> In so doing I've installed cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-27.8, with postfix.
>>
>> 2.2.12 is *REALLY* *REALLY* *REALLY* ***OLD***.
>>
>>> I've got postfix working as I can see mail going to "a" mailbox.
>>> Jun 30 10:04:33 mmtlnx postfix/local[8833]: E149F193AB:
>>> to=<jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent
>>> (delivered to maildir)
>>
>> This is not delivering to Cyrus.  "local" means Postfix is just dumping
>> the message in the filesystem.
>>
>> What distro are you using?  Modern disto's like openSUSE let you
>> configure Postfix via a UI [yast2 in that case] that will do the work
>> for you.
>>
>> In postfix you need something like:
>> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>>
>> This tells it to put messages into the LMTP pipe that flows into the
>> Cyrus mail-store.
>>
>>> I have to assume that this is going to /home/jlmiller/Maildir/new
>>
>> Why?  Don't assume things, you'll never get anywhere.  Cyrus does not
>> use Maildir;  it has its own sealed, and awesome, mailstore.
>>
>>> The problem is I use Outlook 2003 and I have it setup for imap
>>> protocol because I also need to receive my mail on my iPhone
>>> I would like to know how can I get the mail to show up in Outlook.
>>
>>
>>
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