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[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Paul,

Quoting Paul Douglas Franklin <pdf at yugm.org>:

> Hello.
>
> This problem is very strange.  I have set up VM after VM, always a fresh
> install, always 2.2.3, always the same result (almost).  Most were
> Ubuntu and compiled Kolab.  On the last, I installed Debian Lenny and
> the Debian 5 Kolab package.  It's a lot faster with the same result:
> /kolab/var/imapd/spool contains /stage. and /sync. and nothing more.
> /kolab/var/imapd/spool is owned by kolab-r, so ownership is not a
> problem.  The only change is that since that first example, I have not
> had a misplaced domain directory; it simply does not exist.
>
> Despite the fact that I have been pointed in the right direction, I have
> no further information on how to solve this problem.  If anyone has some
> insight, that would be very helpful.  I'm up against a brick wall which
> shouldn't exist, and I'm very frustrated.  Kolab has been very easy to
> set up and maintain in the past, but I cannot overcome this problem.

Sounds indeed weird. What do you have in /kolab/etc/imapd/imapd.conf?

It should contain:

partition-default:      /kolab/var/imapd/spool

Even the base configuration for the imapd server when it is not yet  
configured for Kolab contains this value. So I don't know how your  
system gets the idea of placing the directory somewhere else.

Cheers,

Gunnar


>
> --Paul
>
>
>> Paul Douglas Franklin wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Gavin and Alain
>>> Aah.  That points me in the right direction.  I don't even need to check
>>> the permissions on /kolab/var/imapd/spool/domain; it doesn't exist.  For
>>> some reason there is a /kolab/var/imapd/domain which contains a
>>> directory for one user whom I added and then deleted.  After I installed
>>> kolab, I added the user Douglas; Thunderbird could not access it and got
>>> hung up, so I deleted Douglas and added a user named Alexander.  In the
>>> misplaced domain is /y/yugm/d/douglas, but no /y/yugm/a/alexander.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Gavin and Alain, for asking the right question.
>>>
>>> The permissions are right on these directories, but clearly Kolab is
>>> confused, putting them in the wrong place and not even creating them for
>>> the second user.  How best to straighten it out?
>>>
>>> Since I found that smoking gun, is it still needed to do as Alain
>>> recommended:
>>>
>>> then, can you activate this
>>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Enable_Imap_protocol_logging
>>>
>>> and search and report for error from these log ?
>>>
>>> --Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Paul Douglas Franklin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have a fresh install of Kolab 2.2.3.  I added a user, and the user can
>>>>> log in under Horde.  But Kolab refuses to create any folders, so the
>>>>> user cannot log in using Thunderbird.
>>>>> Under Horde, when I try to save a draft, I get the following messages:
>>>>>
>>>>> The folder "Drafts" was not created. This is what the server said:
>>>>> Permission denied
>>>>> Saving the draft failed. Could not create a drafts folder.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Can you run "ls -l" on the folders in question?  They should be owned by
>>>> kolab-r.
>>>>
>>>> gavinmc at paidi:~$ ls -l /kolab/var/imapd/spool/
>>>> total 60
>>>> drwx------   3 kolab-r kolab-r  4096 2010-02-08 10:49 domain
>>>> drwx------   2 root    root    16384 2010-01-12 18:54 lost+found
>>>> drwxrwx---   2 kolab-r kolab-r  4096 2010-02-23 15:32 stage.
>>>> drwxrwx---   2 kolab-r kolab-r  4096 2010-02-05 11:41 sync.
>>>>
>>>> gavinmc at paidi:~$ sudo ls -l /kolab/var/imapd/spool/domain/
>>>> total 4
>>>> drwx------ 5 kolab-r kolab-r 4096 2010-02-12 13:07 g
>>>>
>>>> Subdirectories further down would also need to be checked.  Presumably the
>>>> filesystem is mounted read-write?
>>>>
>>>> Gavin
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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