Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:58:04 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: John Barbee <jbarbee@singular.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailbox hierarchy with Cyrus. Message-ID: <ML-3.3.921365884.9320.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903120815240.19288-100000@server7.singular.com>
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> Hi, > > I'm going through the last phase of moving from a UW IMAP server > to cyrus, but I don't understand how the mailbox hierarchy is supposed to > work. According to a piece of documentation at the Cyrus website inboxes > must be named user.userid and sub-folders must be named > user.userid.boxname. > > So, I went ahead and created a box called user.myself. A > directory /var/spool/imap/user/myself was creatd and checking through > cyradm the mailbox's permissions defauled to myself all. With Pine, I > checked the collections on the server and there was an INBOX. folder as > well as the INBOX folder. > > I did some further experiments with both Pine and Netscape > Messenger. When I added a folder blahbox with either mail client a > directory /var/spool/imap/blahbox was created and checking through the > permissions on that box defaulted to anyone lrs. Furthermore, in Pine a > dir blahbox. was created alongside of the blahbox mail folder. Try having Pine/Netscape create 'inbox.blahbox' instead of 'blahbox'. I've created a couple of mailboxes from Netscape that way. But I usually use cyradmin since I need to augment the default access to allow direct delivery into the mailbox. (I filter incoming mail into different mailboxes for different mailing lists.) As a side note, the Cyrus docs may not make it clear that you can have sub-mailboxes more than one level deep. For example, my mailboxes for the FreeBSD lists are: user.patl.freebsd.<listname> (Note that in this case 'user.patl.freebsd' is -not- a mailbox itself. Cyrus would allow it; but I had no need for it.) > If I add mailboxes called user.myself.blahbox through cyradm, they > don't show up in the folder tree of my mail client. Hmmm. I haven't had any problem with that. You might check the access permissions; but other than that, I'm at a loss. > Is this what's supposed to happen? Have I configured Cyrus > incorrectly? I can send a copy of my imapd.conf. Should I be using other > mail clients instead? Off hand, I can't think of anything in the imapd.conf that would hide sub-mailboxes. Except, possibly, the default access values. I've had no problem using any IMAP4-capable MUA with Cyrus. I've tried Netscape 4.0x & 4.5 (FreeBSD native, Solaris 2.5.1, & Win95 versions), ML (Solaris), and Balsa (FreeBSD). I have PC and MAC customers; but I'm not sure which MUAs they are using. (I think at least one is using Eudora.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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