On Saturday 22 March 2008 14:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > For some time now I have been trying to get IMAP resources working on > KMail. I have followed the docs from kde, but they tell how to configure > cyrus IMAP, so I've had to learn as I went along. > Referring back to those docs, it seems that this is the part that I'm missing (cyrus instructions follow):
<quote> Now add a user named groupware and set a password for it, using your usual system tools. It should be in an unprivileged group such as nobody and does not require a login shell or a home directory. Now I have to create the user and an IMAP in cyrus also: # cyramd --user cyrus localhost after entering the password for the admin user cyrus, you get the prompt localhost> localhost> cm user.groupware localhost> lm _lists the mailbox onlyjust created_ user.groupware (\HasNoChildren)) localhost> quit You can type help for a list of available commands. You can check what has happened with: ls -l /var/spool/cyrus/mail/g/user/groupware total 12 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 155 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 76 Oct 29 20:55 cyrus.index Now you should be able to connect with an IMAP client as the groupware user and see the INBOX. NOTE In the IMAP protocol, selecting the mailbox INBOX is a magic word, a sort of "alias" for the above directory structure. The client sees INBOX, and the IMAP server maps it in the /var/spool/cyrus/mail/... folder and file structure. </quote> How would I create a dovecot user instead of this cyrus one? My own attempt have totally failed. Anne