squirrelmail problem - imap - how to create .INBOX
 

Hi,

Simple question, I am trying to get squirrelmail going with a new user on my system, and keep getting permissions errors, and the .INBOX files do not exist in /home/user/.maildir/.

How on earth do I create these IMAP files (.INBOX)? I cant remeber having to do this before?

But I cant seem to find any info on this specific problem anywhere

Thanks

depends what's doing the IMAP... you CAN just create the files yourself, courier imap has "maildirmake" which will create the structure for you. for a maildir layout, you just need $MAILDIR/.<name>/tmp/ and /cur/ and /new/

squirrelmail can be odd with maildirs via imap tho. there's a fair few threads i recently needed to get the sent/trash/inbox special folders working, so google for that area.

OK, this is really starting to confuse me!!!

I will try and better explain the situation.

I have squirrelmail installed on my server. Of the 3 users on the system 2 can log into squirrelmail no problem, the third is getting the following error in both frame windows when they log into squirrelmail:

ERROR : Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-04-17 23:16:27]

I have tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to get rid of this problem. I have tried unmerging squirrelmail, removing the problem user completely from the system. Then re-installing squirrelmail and the problem user, and still I get the same problem. The funny thing is I can add a new user and log them into squirrel mail and all is good?

There must be a setting file somewhere that is not being deleted when I uninstall squirrelmail...?

Any ideas???

ok, problem solved
The problem was the UID that was set on the /etc/postfix/mpasswd file for the problem user was different from the UID in /etc/passwd... once this was corrected squirrelmail worked fine again for all users.