cyrus-imap (deleting mailboxes)

Bob Chiodini chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Mon May 10 10:58:18 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 06:50, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 01:58, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > [snip]I was *NOT* able to
> > delete those accounts using 'dm username' I keep getting 'permission
> > denied'. That's something I'm probably not doing right.
> > [/snip]
> > 
> > Deleting in Cyrus isn't that easy, as ususally your admin user needs administrative right for the mailboxes he doesn't
> > possess. Give it to your mailbox-admin (i think must be cyrus) with 'sam user.mailbox cyrus lrswipcda'. Afther that,
> > you can successfully delete the desired mailbox.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Roger
> 
> If this in reference to an earlier cyrus-imap thread:  I think the
> problem is that the poster created the mailbox with cm username not cm
> user.username.  I've done this too, and have not figured out how to
> delete the mailbox created.
> 
> Bob...

Sorry about the reply to my own post.

Just tried the above suggestion. It works fine.

Roger, thanks for the info.  It sure beats having to recreate the IMAP
directories by hand.

Bob...
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