Article:		Running Cyrus IMAP
Subject:		Timely article...
Date:		2005-11-02 20:31:47
From:		fak3r
I was rebuilding my server tonight, and looked out on bsdforums for advice on an IMAP server and came here. Great HOWTO, however I'm stuck at: # su cyrus %/usr/local/cyrus/bin/mkimap reading configure file... i will configure directory /var/imap . i saw partition /var/imap/spool. done configuring /var/imap ... couldn't change to /var/imap at (eval 1) line 67. %ls -l /var/imap/ total 2 drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 512 Nov 2 22:18 spool %ls -l /var/imap/spool/ total 0 % The directory is there, perms are ok, what's up?

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• Timely article...
  2006-07-11 05:10:08  jlbrown [View]
  
  
  Simply use sudo before the command - worked for me!
  
  Ie:
  
  sudo tools/mkimap
  
  James.

• Timely article...
  2005-11-17 08:21:12  Chemi [View]
  
  
  The problem may be that you copied and pasted the imapd.conf from the article, then you deleted the part "[1]", but forgot to remove the blank space at the end of the line (at least this was what I did and had the same problem). That makes the perl script crazy.
  I removed the blank space at the end of the line and everything went OK.
  
  Best wishes.

• Timely article...
  2005-11-02 20:49:02  fak3r [View]
  
  
  Not sure if it's me or the Fbsd 6.0 I'm running, but the fix is:
  
  
  
  su - cyrus
  
  mkdir /var/imap/proc
  
• Timely article...
  2005-11-02 21:19:33  fak3r [View]
  
  
  Hmm...and then I had to do:
  
  su - cyrus
  mkdir /var/imap/db
  
  but now I'm failing at:
  Nov 2 23:18:48 pepe postfix/lmtp[98941]: 9983C21D: to=<xxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=2, status=deferred (connect to /var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp]: Socket operation on non-socket)
  
  Google isn't helping yet...