As you discovered, you can't use mailutil this way. The arguments are
interpreted in the context of the calling user (root in your case), thus
the commend you give tries to create root's mbx-format INBOX and then copy
from root's current INBOX to the newly created root's mbx-format INBOX.
All while actually running as vanilla2.
This isn't particularly useful, but that's how mailutil works.
Fortunately, there is a way around this. The command that you want is:
mailutil copy -d -u vanilla2 INBOX "#driver.mbx/~vanilla2/INBOX"
Make sure that vanilla2 can access root's INBOX! Probably, what you
really want is something like:
mailutil copy -d -u vanilla2 initial "#driver.mbx/~vanilla2/INBOX"
where initial is a publicly-readable initial INBOX file.
Unless you want to create messages or define keywords, a much easier
command is
mailutil create -u vanilla2 "#driver.mbx/~vanilla2/INBOX"
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, James H. McCullars wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to use mailutil to convert UNIX mailboxes to mbx and am
running into a permissions problem. I'm testing using some vanilla accounts
before converting live users. When I run this command as root:
mailutil copy -d -u vanilla2 INBOX "#driver.mbx/INBOX"
I get this error:
Can't create mailbox node //INBOX: Permission denied
It seems to switch to the vanilla2 user, but it doesn't want to create the
file in his home directory. Any way I can get around that? I know that I
can create a proto INBOX to copy in the user's home directory and have the
mail snarfed from /var/mail/<user> next time they check but I will need to
get mailutil to work so that I can convert their folders. This is imap-2007d
running on Solaris 10 (SPARC). Thanks...
Jim McCullars
University of Alabama in Huntsville
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