Sorry dude - disaster on the home front - fire dept water riser decided to spring a leak in a wall in my loft and in short order, sent a cascade that left me in several inches of water and seeped all the way down to share with my neighbors below me - have been mopping, mopping and mopping since about 4:00 and needed to take a break. # rpm -q cyrus-imapd cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-1 to let you know what version I am working with... cyradm... localhost.localdomain> help authenticate, login, auth authenticate to server chdir, cd change current directory createmailbox, create, cm create mailbox deleteaclmailbox, deleteacl, dam remove ACLs from mailbox deletemailbox, delete, dm delete mailbox disconnect, disc disconnect from current server exit, quit exit cyradm help, ? show commands info display mailbox/server metadata listacl, lam, listaclmailbox list ACLs on mailbox listmailbox, lm list mailboxes listquota, lq list quotas on specified root listquotaroot, lqr, lqm show quota roots and quotas for mailbox mboxcfg, mboxconfig configure mailbox reconstruct reconstruct mailbox (if supported) renamemailbox, rename, renm rename (and optionally relocate) mailbox server, servername, connect show current server or connect to server setaclmailbox, sam, setacl set ACLs on mailbox setinfo set server metadata setquota, sq set quota on mailbox or resource version, ver display version info of current server xfermailbox, xfer transfer (relocate) a mailbox to a different server I don't have a rm option...don't know which cyrus options you would have... dm is delete mailbox but 'dm craig' wouldn't normally work why? 1 - cyrus would have to get the rights to delete the mailbox 2 - on my system, reference is user.craig and craig doesn't exist... thus 1 - to give cyrus permission to delete... sam user.craig cyrus lwrsiwpcda # probably the c is all # that is necessary 2 - to delete... dm user.craig that's all there is to deleting a mailbox but to delete messages... cd /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig rm -fr 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* 6* 7* 8* 9* and then to reconstruct mailbox (because indexes will be out of whack) su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -fr user.craig' man cyradm man reconstruct Craig On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:55 -0700, Jim B wrote: > ok I changed the permissions with sam user cyrus lrswipcda but what I > did prior to this is I deleted the users folder under > /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig > > So now I can not delete the mailbox: > > localhost> rm user > /bin/rm: cannot remove `user': No such file or directory > child process exited abnormally > localhost> cm user > command failed: Mailbox already exists > > > Jim > > > On Apr 7, 2005 1:38 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:05 -0700, Jim B wrote: > > > > To delete the account... > > > > su - cyrus - c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyradm localhost' > > > > sam user.$USER_NAME cyrus lwrspcda > > > > dm user.$USER_NAME > > > > # substitute for cyrus, admin name in /etc/imapd.conf if you use a > > > > different account for cyrus admin > > > > # substitute different path for cyradm if yours is on a different path > > > > # substitute user account for $USER_NAME > > > > > > I am trying to delete the user account but I get permission denied and > > > then whe I just try to chang the permissions for the account I get the > > > below output. > > > > > > > > > > > > localhost> sam user actual.user.name cyrus lwrspcda > > > wrong number arguments > > > localhost> sam user acuat.user.name cyrus w > > > wrong number arguments > > > localhost> > > > > > ---- > > seems ok to me > > > > are you connected? > > > > lm #list mailboxes - could be a long list... > > > > localhost.localdomain> sam user.craig cyrus lwrsipcda > > localhost.localdomain> lam user.craig > > craig lrswipcda > > cyrus lrswipcda > > > > Craig > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss