Deleting Shared Folders with SirAdmin

Question

I have a bunch of weird Shared Folders in /var/spool/imap:
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^-^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-+^_-^-spiking21
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-abbessesh
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-abductinggr902
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-admonitionsj2
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-airmenc1
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-alanfb15
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 May 15 2008 ^_-alcoholismm
I am trying to use SirAdmin to delete them, but I always get Permission Denied when I do that.
I am using my admin user to login to the server with SirAdmin.
How can I get rid of these folders?
Ivan

Answer 1

Don't use your normal admin user for this - create a "siradmin" user (specific name not important). I cannot remember though why this was the advice - so maybe redundant now.
Add that admin to /etc/imapd.conf so that 'admins' line reads like...
admins: cyrusimap siradmin
After logging into SirAdmin, select the shared folder and add an ACL for the siradmin user, with ALL permissions. Then delete the folder. You have to give the user delete permissions before being able to delete it, strange but true