can not create new email user in virtualmin

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Here is what I did:

I deleted an email user (coz I think Squirrelmail changed some settings).

Then want to create the same user again. And I get:

[code:1]Failed to save mailbox : Home directory /home/domain/homes/admin already exists[/code:1]

I think the problem is, that Virtualmin did, or does not delete the /home/domain/homes/user/ directory, coz after deleting it manually new creation was no problem.

2

Was there an error when deleting the user? (And are you sure you didn’t instruct Virtualmin to leave the home directory and just “forget” about the user?)

3

I did Virtualmin > (Select Server) > Edit Mail and FTP Users > Delete Selected User

I don’t recall any error message (not saying there wasn’t any though). There is a possibility that I got a white screen.

Maybe I can add one more question:

After I created the new user I have only following mailboxes:

Inbox
Drafts
Sent mail

…but no SPAM box… I had that before with 1 or 2 users. I think manually creating a SPAM box will not work, as I had never had SPAM in such (and I have plenty of SPAM otherwise).

4

I suspect the spam folder is going to show up after you receive some spams.

When directed to store an email to a particular folder, procmail will generally create that folder if it doesn’t already exist. In this case, that folder is $HOME/Maildir/.spam .
-Eric

5

A not directly related question:

if I want to re-create an existing mailbox and keep all mail messages, can I…:

  1. rename /home/domain/homes/user/ to i.e. user_old
  2. delete the user "user" via Virtualmin
  3. re-create the user "user" via Virtualmin
  4. rename /home/domain/homes/user_old/ back to "user_old"

Will that work?

(I think squirrelmail did some changes to some mailboxes. I will stick to Usermin now)

6

If you’re interested in preserving emails, what I’d keep is the Maildir folder – $HOME/Maildir (so /home/domain/homes/user/Maildir in your case).
-Eric