Loss if IMAP permissions

"Robin Cragg" <robincragg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:53:15 -0700

Hi,

Our mailbox.db file recently became corrputed, and 
so I wrote a little script to generate a new one, based purely on the contents 
of /var/spool/imap/ . The script worked fine, and I could see all the folders in 
cyradm, and could log in as a user with no problem. However, my import seems to 
have lost all directory permissions, and as such, I could not do either a folder 
list of see emails when logged in as an IMAP user (though I was fine as a POP3 
user with seeing emails). When I manually added permissions for the user for 
each folder, I regained the ability to see emails and folders.

Can anybody tell me what I did wrong?

What I did:

#!/usr/bin/perl

listdirs("user");

sub listdirs ($) {
        my 
$dir = shift;
        my @dirs = 
();
        opendir DIR, 
"/var/spool/imap/$dir";
        while 
($entry = readdir DIR) 
{

next if ($entry =~ /^\./ || ! -d 
"/var/spool/imap/$dir/$entry");

$cyrname = 
$dir;

$cyrname =~ s:/:.:g 
;

if ($dir eq "user") 
{

$username = 
$entry;

} else 
{

$username = 
$dir;

$username =~ s:^user/([^/]+).*:$1: 
;

}

print 
"${cyrname}.${entry}\tdefault\t$username\tlrswipcda\n";
#               
print "sam ${cyrname}.${entry} $username 
lrswipcda\n";

push @dirs, $entry;

}
        closedir 
DIR;
        foreach (@dirs) { 
listdirs("$dir/$_") ; }
}

the hashed out line has the command I pasted into cyradm to fix the 
permissions problem.
This generates a file with entries like this:

user.robin      default robin   
lrswipcda
user.robin.Abuse        default 
robin   lrswipcda
user.robin.Clients      
default robin   lrswipcda
user.robin.Sent_Mail    
default robin   lrswipcda

(the white space is all tabs) I then used this as the import source for the 
new database (after firast deleting the old one and all files in db)

cat /var/imap/mailboxes.db.import | /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u

I also noticed there were one or two folders with white space in their 
names, and that cyradm complained about this. Does anyone know how to get it to 
accept these?

thanks,

Robin
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