Tried the following with no success, hope someone could guide me. Created /home/cyrus/ (same physical partition as the default , just for testing) Added to imapd.conf: partition-mail1: /home/cyrus/ allowusermoves:yes When I try: renamemailbox user.foo user.foo partifion-mail1 I get : renamemailbox: Server(s) unavailable to complete operation and in maillog: Could not move mailbox: user.foo, Initial backend connect failed. Any hint on whats going on here. Thank you very much Diego ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html