Not creating mailboxes

[Paul Douglas Franklin]

One more thing I tried:  I copied the domain directory to where it 
should be and added another user.  Kolab did not create directories 
appropriate to the new user.
--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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