Not creating mailboxes

[Paul Douglas Franklin]

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.

--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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Paul Douglas Franklin
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