Administering Mailboxes
The "cyradm" command (see the cyradm(1) man page for complete
documentation) manages the creation of, deletion of, ACLs on, and
quotas on mailboxes. To get an overview of the command, type "cyradm
<host>". Once "cyradm" has started, the user prompt is replaced with
the name of the host followed by a ">". Type "help" at the new prompt.
The following information is displayed:
createmailbox, cm create a mailbox
deleteaclmailbox, dam delete an ACL on a mailbox
deletemailbox, dm delete a mailbox
help get help on commands
listaclmailbox, lam list the ACL on a mailbox
listmailbox, lm list mailboxes
listquota, lq list quota on root
listquotaroot, lqr, lqm list quota roots on mailbox
quit exit program
renamemailbox, renm rename a mailbox
setaclmailbox, sam set an ACL on a mailbox
setquota, sq set quota limits
Note:It's not necessary to run "cyradm" on the same system as the IMAP
server.
Note:If you run "cyradm" on a system not using Kerberos for
authentication, you will be prompted for your user name and password
before you can issue any "cyradm" commands. Use the "-u" option to
specify a particular user.
The mailbox naming convention requires that the primary mailbox (inbox)
for anyone must be named "user.<userid>". To create a mailbox, type:
createmailbox user.<userid>
For example, to create a mailbox for the userid "smith", type:
createmailbox user.smith
To limit "smith" to 10,000 kilobytes of mail, type:
setquota user.smith 10000
Once the inbox is created, users can create their own additional
mailboxes from a mail program. If Smith created a work mailbox and a
play mailbox, the full names of the mailboxes would be:
user.smith.work
user.smith.play
Access rights are discussed in detail in the cyradm(1) man pages. Note
that the administrator must grant herself create/delete access
explicitly before she can delete a mailbox:
setaclmailbox <mail_box> <admin_userid> c
deletemailbox <mail_box>
Once you have created mailboxes, your IMAP server installation is done.
You must then configure a mail interface, such as Pine or Mulberry, to
work with the IMAP server.