authenticate¶

authenticate [--minssf N] [--maxssf N] [--mechanisms list] [--service name] [--tlskey keyfile] [--notls] [--cafile cacertfile] [--capath cacertdir] user

Authenticate to server. You must already be connected to a server and Cyrus imapd will refuse to allow you to re-authenticate once you have authenticated once.

aliases: auth, login

chdir¶

chdir directory

Change directory. A pwd builtin is not provided, but the default command action will run pwd from a shell if invoked.

aliases: cd

createmailbox¶

createmailbox [--partition partition] [--specialuse specialuse] mailbox

createmailbox [--specialuse specialuse] mailbox partition

Create a mailbox on the default or a specified partition. Both old-style and getopt-style usages are accepted (combining them will produce an error). Optionally assign a special use to the mailbox.

New mailboxes inherit the ACL permissions of their parent mailbox, except for top-level mailboxes such as the user's INBOX. Mailboxes that are the user's INBOX are assigned all to the corresponding user.

localhost> :command:`cm user.john`
localhost> :command:`lm`
user.john (\HasNoChildren)
localhost> :command:`lam user.john`
john lrswipkxtecda

localhost> :command:`cm user/john`
localhost> :command:`lm`
user/john (\HasNoChildren)
localhost> :command:`lam user/john`
john lrswipkxtecda

aliases: cm, create

deleteaclmailbox¶

deleteaclmailbox mailbox id [...]

Remove ACLs from the specified mailbox.

aliases: delteacl, dam

deletemailbox¶

deletemailbox mailbox

Delete the specified mailbox.

Administrators do not have implicit delete rights on mailboxes. Use the setaclmailbox command to grant the x permission to your principal if you need to delete a mailbox you do not own.

aliases: delete, dm

disconnect¶

disconnect

Disconnect from the current server. The prompt will revert to cyradm>. This does not quit cyradm.

aliases: disc

exit¶

exit [number]

Exit cyradm, optionally with a specific exit status; the exit status of the last command will be used if one is not specified.

aliases: quit

help¶

help [command]

Show help for command or all commands.

aliases: ?

getmetadata¶

getmetadata [mailbox]

Display mailbox/server metadata

aliases: getmd

info¶

info [mailbox]

Display the mailbox/server annotations.

listaclmailbox¶

listaclmailbox mailbox

List ACLs on the specified mailbox.

aliases: lam, listacl

listmailbox¶

listmailbox [--subscribed] [--specialuse] [pattern [reference]]

List all, or all subscribed or special-use, mailboxes matching the specified pattern. The pattern may have embedded wildcards '\*' or '%', which match anything or anything except the separator character, respectively.

Mailboxes returned will be relative to the specified reference if one is specified. This allows a mailbox list to be limited to a particular hierarchy.

In some cases when the '%' wildcard is used to end a pattern, it may match an entry which is not a mailbox but which contains other mailboxes. In this case, the entry will be parenthesized to indicate that it is a root for other mailboxes, as opposed to a mailbox itself.

aliases: list, lm

listquota¶

listquota root

List quotas on specified root. If the specified mailbox path does not have a quota assigned, an error will be raised; see listquotaroot for a way to find the quota root for a mailbox.

aliases: lq

listquotaroot¶

listquotaroot mailbox

Show quota roots and quotas for mailbox

aliases: lqm, lqr

mboxconfig¶

mboxconfig [--private] mailbox attribute value

Set mailbox metadata, optionally set the private instead of the shared version of the metadata. A value of "none" will remove the attribute.

The currently supported attributes are:

aliases: mboxcfg

reconstruct¶

reconstruct [-r] mailbox

Reconstruct the specified mailbox, optionally recursing and reconstructing child mailboxes if the -r flag is given.

For more information see reconstruct(8).

renamemailbox¶

renamemailbox [--partition partition] oldname newname

renamemailbox oldname newname [partition]

Rename the specified mailbox, optionally moving it to a different partition. Both old-style and getopt-style usages are accepted; combining them will produce an error.

aliases: rename, renm

server¶

server

server [--noauthenticate] [server]

With no arguments, show the current server. With an argument, connect to that server. It will prompt for automatic login unless the --noauthenticateoption is specified. (This may change; in particular, either automatic authentication will be removed or all authenticate options will be added.)

When connected to a server, cyradm's prompt changes from cyradm> to servername>, where servername is the fully qualified domain name of the connected server.

aliases: connect, servername

setaclmailbox¶

setaclmailbox mailbox id rights [id rights ...]

Set ACLs on a mailbox. The ACL may be one of the special strings none, read (lrs), post (lrsp), append (lrsip), write(lrswipkxte), delete (lrxte), or all (lrswipkxte), or any combinations of the ACL codes:

aliases: setacl, sam

setinfo¶

setinfo attribute value

Set server metadata. A value of "none" will remove the attribute. The currently supported attributes are:

setmetadata¶

setmetadata [--private] mailbox [annotation] value

Set metadata on mailbox, where annotation is one of [comment|expire|news2mail|pop3showafter|sharedseen|sieve|specialuse| squat|/<explicit annotation>].

Note that value with a leading backslash must be escaped with an additional backslash. For example:

setmetadata --private Spam specialuse "\\Junk"

Note, too, that "private" annotations are private to the user currently authenticated as, not necessarily the owner of the mailbox. To set annotations for another user you must authorize as that user.

In addition to the use of optional flag --private, one may use a more explicit syntax, prefixing the annotation with '/shared/' or '/private/' as in this example:

setmetadata Spam /private/specialuse "\\Junk"

aliases: setmd

setquota¶

setquota root resource value [resource value ...]

Set a quota on the specified root, which may or may not be an actual mailbox. The resources understood by Cyrus are STORAGE, MESSAGE, X-NUM-FOLDERS and X-ANNOTATION-STORAGE. The storage units are, as defined in RFC 2087, groups of 1024 octets (i.e. Kilobytes). The value may be the special string none which will remove the quota.

aliases: sq

subscribe¶

subscribe mailbox

Subscribe to the given mailbox.

unsubscribe¶

unsubscribe mailbox

Unsubscribe to the given mailbox.

version¶

version

Display the version info of the current server.

aliases: ver

xfermailbox¶

xfermailbox [--partition partition] mailbox server

xfermailbox mailbox server [partition]

Transfer (relocate) the specified mailbox to a different server. Both old-style and getopt-style usages are accepted; combining them will produce an error.

aliases: xfer