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 10000
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 at posthamster ~]$ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota
Quota % Used Used Root
0 user/
0 user/ 10000
[...]
[cyrus at 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 10000
[...]
[cyrus at 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 at 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 10000
[...]
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.
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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/ 10000" cyrus all localhost> dm "user/ 10000" 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 10000[...] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 261 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130507/c053e158/attachment-0002.sig>