[CentOS] deleting Cyrus mailbox with empty name
A junior administrator of mine mistakenly created a mailbox with an empty name, by typing into cyradm the commands: createmailbox user/$lb setquota user/$lb 1 He will of course shortly receive an extra lesson on shell variables, but meanwhile I find myself confronted with the problem how to get rid of the mailbox he created. So far all attempts have failed: [cyrus@posthamster ~]$ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota Quota % Used Used Root 0 user/ 0 user/ 1 [...] [cyrus@posthamster ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/imap/user/ total 2180 drwx--. 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 1 2012 drwx--. 2 cyrus mail 4096 May 7 08:53 1 [...] [cyrus@posthamster ~]$ cyradm -u cyrus localhost IMAP Password: localhost sq user/$lb localhost dm user/$lb deletemailbox: Permission denied localhost lam user/$lb lrswipkxtecda localhost sam user/$lb cyrus all usage: setaclmailbox mailbox id rights [id rights ...] localhost sam user/ cyrus all setaclmailbox: cyrus: lrswipkxtea: Mailbox does not exist localhost sam user/ cyrus all setaclmailbox: cyrus: lrswipkxtea: Mailbox does not exist localhost lam user/ Mailbox does not exist localhost lam user/ Mailbox does not exist localhost ^D [cyrus@posthamster ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/imap/user/ total 2180 drwx--. 2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 1 2012 drwx--. 2 cyrus mail 4096 May 7 08:53 1 [...] Obviously the handling of undefined variable substitution in cyradm is somewhat inconsistent, preventing me from deleting the mailbox the same way it was created. Any ideas? TIA T. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] deleting Cyrus mailbox with empty name
Thanks, I found the solution. The name of the bad mailbox wasn't in fact empty, but a single blank character which the cyradm and quota commands dutifully removed as leading blank in their output. So localhost sam user/ cyrus all localhost dm user/ was what it took to get rid of the mailbox with the empty name, and localhost sam user/ 1 cyrus all localhost dm user/ 1 took care of the second one created by the hapless colleague's setquota command. Am 07.05.2013 21:04, schrieb Tilman Schmidt: A junior administrator of mine mistakenly created a mailbox with an empty name, by typing into cyradm the commands: createmailbox user/$lb setquota user/$lb 1 [...] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
