How to create Mail Store in alternate partitions on Mac OS X Server 10.4
02/10/06 08:27 Filed in: OS X Server
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For some reason, specifying alternate Mail Store never seems to work. Follow these steps to create manually.
1. Create a folder where you want Mail Store to be created
2. Open Server Admin
3. Click on Mail -> Settings -> Advanced -> Database
4. Click on +. Enter any name for the new Mail Store. Specify the full path of the the folder you created in # 1. Alternately you can click on the ... to browse to the folder location. Click on OK and then click on Save. Exit Server Admin
5. Open Workgroup Manager
6. Select the user for whom you want to change Mail Store. Click Mail tab
7. Check Use an alternation partition option and enter the partition name you specified for new Mail Store in # 4
8. Click on Save. Exit Workgroup Manager
9. You need to specify a user as IMAP admin. Open /etc/imapd.conf and add the user name to admins section. Separate multiple users with comma. Changes will take effect immediatlety. Your entry will look like this:
admins: cyrusimap, my_user
10. cd /usr/bin/cyrus/admin
11. su IMAP_admin_user where IMAP_admin_user is my_user of # 9
12. ./cyradm
13. You will now get a cyradm> prompt
14. connect localhost, at prompt enter password
15. Create mailbox with this command:
cm Other\ Users/user_name partition_name
where partition_name is the partition name you specified for new Mail Store in # 4
16. Set permissions with this command:
sam Other\ Users/user_name* lrswipcda
17. quit
18. Login using WebMail or shoot an Email to the user
19. To verify, open Server Admin -> Mail -> Maintenance -> Accounts
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For some reason, specifying alternate Mail Store never seems to work. Follow these steps to create manually.
1. Create a folder where you want Mail Store to be created
2. Open Server Admin
3. Click on Mail -> Settings -> Advanced -> Database
4. Click on +. Enter any name for the new Mail Store. Specify the full path of the the folder you created in # 1. Alternately you can click on the ... to browse to the folder location. Click on OK and then click on Save. Exit Server Admin
5. Open Workgroup Manager
6. Select the user for whom you want to change Mail Store. Click Mail tab
7. Check Use an alternation partition option and enter the partition name you specified for new Mail Store in # 4
8. Click on Save. Exit Workgroup Manager
9. You need to specify a user as IMAP admin. Open /etc/imapd.conf and add the user name to admins section. Separate multiple users with comma. Changes will take effect immediatlety. Your entry will look like this:
admins: cyrusimap, my_user
10. cd /usr/bin/cyrus/admin
11. su IMAP_admin_user where IMAP_admin_user is my_user of # 9
12. ./cyradm
13. You will now get a cyradm> prompt
14. connect localhost, at prompt enter password
15. Create mailbox with this command:
cm Other\ Users/user_name partition_name
where partition_name is the partition name you specified for new Mail Store in # 4
16. Set permissions with this command:
sam Other\ Users/user_name* lrswipcda
17. quit
18. Login using WebMail or shoot an Email to the user
19. To verify, open Server Admin -> Mail -> Maintenance -> Accounts
Use the Contact Us form for comments / suggestions.