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[ml at a019.hostcentral.com]

> > We are a small ISP trying to set up Horde with Cyrus 2 and SASL on
> > FreeBSD-stable for our customers.
> 
> We use Cyrus and Horde here successfully.  See comments below.

Great. Thank you very much for answering us.
Could you please tell us how large is your user base. [We would like to know how
well does horde scale.]
Do you host multiple domains in your configuration?

> > So far imapd works, a few mailboxes created and we are able to connect to
> the
> > horde interface and send/receive mail.
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1. User creating a folder must specify "INBOX.[foldername]". Can this be
> > changed?
> > 2. Must all folders created by a user be under INBOX?
> 
> With the default Cyrus configuration, all folders are subfolders of INBOX.
> If you want to stick with this config, you should set "namespace =>
> 'INBOX.'" in your IMP config/servers.php file.
> 
> However, I'd recommend changing your Cyrus config by setting
> "altnamespace: yes" in your Cyrus imapd.conf.  This changes the behavior
> of Cyrus so that, from the IMAP user's point of view, folders are at the
> same "level" as the INBOX.  If you previously had a folder "INBOX.foo",
> the user would just see it as "foo", not as a subfolder of INBOX.  If you
> do this, you should set "namespace => ''" in your IMP config/servers.php
> file.

We have done same thing and now we experience following:
1. With Outlook Express as a client we are able to create both top-level folders
and also subfolders.
2. With HORDE when we give folder name as MYNEWFOLDER it creates a new top-level
folder. However, if we try to create folder with name INBOX.myfolder we get
following error 'The folder "INBOX.myfolder" was not created. This is what the
server saidInvalid mailbox name'. 
Is it possible to have kinds of mail folders with horde just as with regular
IMAP client?

> Please, be sure you understand the consequences of this change though.
> Many Cyrus users believe altnamespace: yes makes the server behave more
> like the users expect it to, but maybe you disagree.

We also think that our users will be more comfortable with altnamespace.

> > 3. Admin user cannot create top level [shared] folders. Moreover, when you
> log
> > in as cyrus admin user and go to the Folders page, Horde hangs. 'cyrus' is
> in
> > tghe admin array of horde/config/horde.php
> 
> Don't ever log in as the admin user, except when you are using the cyradm
> program.  The admin user does not normally have a mailbox (and shouldn't),
> so when you login with Horde it can't select the "INBOX" for the admin
> user.  Normally, all IMAP servers are required to handle the special name
> "INBOX" and map it to the user's real mailbox (user.foo in Cyrus).  I'm
> not sure what the behavior of IMP/c-client is if it can't do that.
> 
> Shared folders should be created using the cyradm tool.

This is probably very stupid, but I do not see a cyradm command that creates a
new shared folder.

> > 4. The imapd log is full of messages like this:
> > Nov 10 18:05:19 a019 imapd[96798]: no user in db
> > Nov 10 18:05:19 a019 imapd[96798]: login:
> localhost.hostcentral.com[127.0.0.1]
> > itz CRAM-MD5 User logged in.
> 
> This is probably because the admin user does not have an "INBOX".

What is the username for the user who is not in db?
My /var/log/auth.log is full of "no user in db" and a few less "no secret in
database" messages. However, I could not yet figure out what is the username
for the missing user.

> > 5. It appears that each user only INBOX folder and no Drafts and/or Sent
> that
> > we
> > expected to see. Is that normal? Could this be altered somehow?
> 
> This is because you don't the namespace parameter set correctly.  Either
> use "INBOX." (note trailing dot), or change to "altnamespace: yes" and use
> "" (blank).

I did this, but as I said now we have problems making subfolders.

I am pasting my configurarion from imp/config/servers.php

---
$servers['imap'] = array(
    'name' => 'IMAP Server',
    'server' => 'localhost',
    'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
    'port' => 143,
    'folders' => '',
    'namespace' => '',
    'maildomain' => 'a019.hostcentral.com',
    'smtphost' => 'localhost',
    'realm' => '',
    'preferred' => ''
);
---

> Hope this helps!

Yes, thank you very much.

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