Problems adding and deleting mail accounts

I am running server 10.5.8 and have had amazingly few issues or crashes. I'm a novice, know zero about UNIX, but have a server for a small office that i set up and has run without issues for years. It hosts our website and email and some basic file sharing and ftp.
This past week, I tried to add a user in Workgroup Manager, that is basically just an email user. Worked fine in Workgroup Manager, and activated the account and enabled email as both pop and imap. i also deleted some users that are no longer with us.
I tried to set up Mail on the client computer, and it would not work. I went back to the server and in Server Admin it shows that Mail is up, other users are getting their mail, but the new user I set up in workgroup manager is not showing up as having an account in server admin, and the users i deleted in workgroup manager still seem to have accounts in server admin.
In the Mail Access log I just get repeats of this same message;
Aug 28 10:23:59 server imap[1386]: AOD: user opts: get attributes for user: office failed with error: -14479
I tried restarting, tried to repair permissions etc.
Does anyone have any ideas?

no they did not show up there either.
i opened up users and groups and just tried adding the user to the access list.
i will let you know how it works.
thanks.

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Adding and Deleting mail accounts

Hi all,
I have a 10.4.11 server running Mail services. I recently tried to add a user account for a new employee. The account was created without error, and the appropriate mailbox created, etc., etc. However whenever I tested logging in to webmail, I got the following error message:
"ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: System I/O error"
At the same time, in the console I get the following message:
"Aug 22 11:40:58 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/cyrus.header: No such file or directory
Aug 22 11:40:58 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/Deleted Messages/cyrus.header: No such file or directory
Aug 22 11:40:59 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/cyrus.header: No such file or directory"
I then went to delete the user account as I was under the impression that this also deletes the mail account. However the user entry is still in mailboxes.db. How am I to delete it completely so I can work on recreating this account?
TIA!
Andrew

You can use SirAdmin ( http://explanatorygap.net/2006/05/13/siradmin-a-gui-replacement-for-cyradm/ ) to delete IMAP accounts.
Alternatively, recreate it in WGM making sure you use the very same first shortname you did when you first created the account. When done, download mailbfr ( http://osx.topicdesk.com/tools/ ), install it and issue:
mailbfr -m username
(replace username with that first shortname - monicatanksley according to the log entry)
HTH,
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I got a zen touch, plug it in the pc and the zen says 'docked', the computer says found zen etc. I open the zen in My Computer, click on the music library, it opens, all of my music is displayed as normal but when I try and delete a track/album etc, it says 'cannot be deleted, try agin later' or something like that.
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willbill0587 wrote:
I got a zen touch, plug it in the pc and the zen says 'docked', the computer says found zen etc. I open the zen in My Computer, click on the music library, it opens, all of my music is displayed as normal but when I try and delete a track/album etc, it says 'cannot be deleted, try agin later' or something like that.
When I try and add files it says, 'a problem has occured and action cannot be performed' or something like that.
Can anyone tell me why? I have added 5GB of music on it without any problems, I have deleted music off it, there is definately enough space left, the computer recognises it ok, the zen recognises it has been connected but it won't let me do anything?
I have tried reinstalling everything for it over and over. Only a couple of days ago I added more music to it and it was fine and now it is telling me this?
HELP!! Its driving me mad.:angry:
willbill0587 wrote:
I got a zen touch, plug it in the pc and the zen says 'docked', the computer says found zen etc. I open the zen in My Computer, click on the music library, it opens, all of my music is displayed as normal but when I try and delete a track/album etc, it says 'cannot be deleted, try agin later' or something like that.
When I try and add files it says, 'a problem has occured and action cannot be performed' or something like that.
Can anyone tell me why? I have added 5GB of music on it without any problems, I have deleted music off it, there is definately enough space left, the computer recognises it ok, the zen recognises it has been connected but it won't let me do anything?
I have tried reinstalling everything for it over and over. Only a couple of days ago I added more music to it and it was fine and now it is telling me this?
HELP!! Its driving me mad.:angry:

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