Mailbox does not exist question (NO it is NOT the answer!)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:17 +0000, Charles Bradshaw wrote:
> I have enabled debug. (in imapd.conf debug: yes). Now when I start a telnet
> imap session /var/log/maillog has this:
> Jan 24 13:25:59 dell2600 imap[4507]: accepted connection
> Jan 24 13:25:59 dell2600 master[4549]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Jan 24 13:25:59 dell2600 imap[4549]: executed
> Jan 24 13:25:59 dell2600 imap[4549]: IOERROR: opening
> /var/lib/imap/user_deny.db: No such file or directory
> Is this the problem?
> How do I create user_deny.db ?

No, it is OK for user_deny to not exist.  [this is a chronically
confusing message;  you can't really tell DEBUG 'error' messages from
"real" error messages].

> Telnet session still does NOT report the presence of INBOX:

I don't understand this statement.

> $ telnet localhost imap
> Trying ::1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN
> AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR] dell2600.bradcan.homelinux.com Cyrus
> IMAP v2.4.14-Fedora-RPM-2.4.14-1.fc17 server ready
> a1 LOGIN brad at bradcan.homelinux.com wH3x14or
> a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA
> MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN
> MULTIAPPEND BINARY CATENATE CONDSTORE ESEARCH SORT SORT=MODSEQ SORT=DISPLAY
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE LIST-EXTENDED WITHIN
> QRESYNC SCAN XLIST URLAUTH URLAUTH=BINARY X-NETSCAPE LOGINDISABLED
> COMPRESS=DEFLATE IDLE] User logged in
> SESSIONID=<dell2600.bradcan.homelinux.com-4597-1359054779-1>
> a2 LIST "" "*"
> a2 OK Completed (0.000 secs)
> I am at a complete loss to understand how it is possible that mail is
> delivered, but at the same time the INBOX is not being identified during the
> imap session.
> Is there some way to increase the bebug level of imapd ?

Have you enabled telemetry logging for that user?

Does the mailbox in question appear in the mailbox list?

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA