Marten Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
Did you create it with
cm user.test@xxxxxxx
no, just with
cm test@xxxxxxx
What is the "user." for? I thought this is just a relict from
See this for an explanation:
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/overview.html#mboxnamestd
It's a common mistake to forget the 'user.' prefix, but it is required
in a conventional setup.
non-virtualdomain setups? What can I use an account for if I'm not creating it
with "user."?
There really aren't accounts in Cyrus IMAP, just mailboxes created
within namespaces. The notion of an account is a product of the
authentication system (Cyrus SASL) combined with Access Control Lists.
When an external process (like your MTA) passes a message to Cyrus for
delivery, the form of the localpart tells Cyrus how to deliver it, and a
simple foo@xxxxxxxxxxx gets delivered to the user.foo namespace. But a
user that authenticates to Cyrus can have access to much more than a
mailbox in the user namespace (and may not even have access to the user
namespace at all!). It seems confusing at first, but it's a very
flexible system.
Mailboxes created in the root of the namespace can be used as bulletin
boards or shared mailboxes that appear at the same level as INBOX, not
as a child of it (which can be further confused by the use of
altnamespace). However, it's recommended to use the namespaces provided
for these features so user accounts don't get cluttered with folders
over which they have no control (if they don't use subscriptions), and
to support delivery using specially constructed localparts in email
addresses.
Can I rename the account or do I have to create a new one (is
"user." evaluated at the creation time to create a special typ of account?)?
If there is no mail in it, it is safe to delete this mailbox with cyradm
and create a new one in the user namespace (the example assumes cyrus is
your admin user):
localhost> sam test cyrus c
localhost> dm test
localhost> cm user.test
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