hello everyone,
i ran into a problem. i can't get cyrus mailbox created. what i get is only error:

cm user.test.test
createmailbox: Permission denied

if i try user without "lastname":

cm user.test
createmailbox: System I/O error

here's maillog message:

Jan 4 13:08:09 pigeon imap[21695]: login: host.domain.com [127.0.0.1] cyrus plaintext User logged in
Jan 4 13:09:12 pigeon imap[21695]: IOERROR: creating directory /mail/imap: Permission denied

# ls -al /mail/imap/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 4096 Jan 4 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 cyrus mail 4096 Jan 4 12:44 .

in my imapd.comf file cyrus is listed as "admins:"

i run CentOS 5.4
and i have these packages installed:
cyrus-imapd.x86_64 2.3.7-7.el5_4.3 installed
cyrus-imapd-perl.x86_64 2.3.7-7.el5_4.3 installed
cyrus-imapd-utils.x86_64 2.3.7-7.el5_4.3 installed
cyrus-sasl.i386 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl.x86_64 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl-lib.i386 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl-md5.x86_64 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl-plain.i386 2.1.22-5.el5 installed
cyrus-sasl-plain.x86_64 2.1.22-5.el5 installed

any help would be appreciated

Can you give the output of both 'id' and 'df -h'?

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t


# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
40G 14G 25G 35% /
/dev/sda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot
tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 119G 188M 112G 1% /mail