Created a log file to see what is going on this is the results, I believe I see a no permission denied, is this the permissions on the mailbox? >1309447583>1 OK User logged in^M <1309447583<2 CAPABILITY^M >1309447583>* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ >MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN >MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES >ANNOTATEMORE IDLE LOGINDISABLED X-NETSCAPE^M 2 OK Completed^M <1309447583<3 ID ("name" "iPhone Mail" "version" "8J2" "os" "iOS" "os-version" "4.3.3 (8J2)")^M >1309447583>* ID ("name" "Cyrus IMAPD" "version" "v2.2.12 2005/02/14 >16:43:51" "vendor" "Project Cyrus" "support-url" >"http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus" "os" "Linux" "os-version" >"2.6.16.46-0.12-default" "environment" "Built w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.21; Running >w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.21; Built w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (March >28, 2007); Running w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (June 16, >2006); Built w/OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005; Running w/OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct >2005; CMU Sieve 2.2; DRAC; TCP Wrappers; mmap = shared; lock = fcntl; >nonblock = fcntl; auth = unix; idle = idled")^M 3 OK Completed^M <1309447583<4 LIST "" "*"^M >1309447583>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 4 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309447583<5 LIST "" "*"^M >1309447583>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 5 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309447583<6 CREATE Notes^M >1309447583>6 NO Permission denied^M <1309448191<7 LIST "" "*"^M >1309448191>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 7 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309448191<8 CREATE Notes^M >1309448191>8 NO Permission denied^M <1309448793<9 LIST "" "*"^M >1309448793>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 9 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309448793<10 CREATE Notes^M >1309448793>10 NO Permission denied^M <1309449523<11 LIST "" "*"^M >1309449523>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 11 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309449523<12 CREATE Notes^M >1309449523>12 NO Permission denied^M <1309450127<13 LIST "" "*"^M >1309450127>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 13 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309450127<14 CREATE Notes^M >1309450127>14 NO Permission denied^M <1309450730<15 LIST "" "*"^M >1309450730>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 15 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309450730<16 CREATE Notes^M >1309450730>16 NO Permission denied^M <1309451332<17 LIST "" "*"^M >1309451332>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent"^M * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"^M 17 OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)^M <1309451332<18 CREATE Notes^M >1309451332>18 NO Permission denied^M -------------------------------------------------- From: "JonL" <jonl711@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:11 PM To: <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client > after adding the required command in main.cf > mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp > > I'm now getting the following error > > Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/qmgr[13978]: 05C4A19B8A: > from=<839556+2D3-jlmiller=mmtnetworks.com.au@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > size=4281, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/lmtp[14146]: 05C4A19B8A: > to=<jlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=3, status=deferred > (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: > Permission > denied) > > I'm using: > Suse Linux Enterprise Server v 10 SP1 (will be moving to SP4) > > Unfortunately I find the documentation not as clear as I had hoped. > > Also do I need to make any changes to my transport table? > > Regards > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:45 PM > To: <info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client > >> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:22 +0800, JonL wrote: >>> g'day all >>> I'm new hear so please bear with me... this is my first cyru-imap >>> install >> >> Congratulations. >> >>> Issue: >>> I've had to rebuild my linux server mail server due to a hdd crash. >>> In so doing I've installed cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-27.8, with postfix. >> >> 2.2.12 is *REALLY* *REALLY* *REALLY* ***OLD***. >> >>> I've got postfix working as I can see mail going to "a" mailbox. >>> Jun 30 10:04:33 mmtlnx postfix/local[8833]: E149F193AB: >>> to=<jlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent >>> (delivered to maildir) >> >> This is not delivering to Cyrus. "local" means Postfix is just dumping >> the message in the filesystem. >> >> What distro are you using? Modern disto's like openSUSE let you >> configure Postfix via a UI [yast2 in that case] that will do the work >> for you. >> >> In postfix you need something like: >> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp >> >> This tells it to put messages into the LMTP pipe that flows into the >> Cyrus mail-store. >> >>> I have to assume that this is going to /home/jlmiller/Maildir/new >> >> Why? Don't assume things, you'll never get anywhere. Cyrus does not >> use Maildir; it has its own sealed, and awesome, mailstore. >> >>> The problem is I use Outlook 2003 and I have it setup for imap >>> protocol because I also need to receive my mail on my iPhone >>> I would like to know how can I get the mail to show up in Outlook. >> >> >> >> ---- >> Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ >> List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ >> > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/