After benefiting from everyone's inputs, I finally have a chance to contribute a little to the community.
This will Restore the IMAP Administrator Mail functionality, allowing you as administrator to easily check the mail in other users mailboxes through the standard Apple Mail.app Mail application - This is very useful for regulating the influx of spam etc. etc.
(for example - you can forward any spam you find in users mailboxes that was not correctly identified as spam to junkmail@yourserverhere.com - and the email program will automatically use the forwarded emails in this mailbox at 1am the following morning to "spam" train itself. Also items that are incorrectly identified as spam can be forwarded to notjunkmail@yourserverhere.com)
Important! These simple instructions will work perfectly on a STANDARD "Out of the box" Apple Mac OS X Tiger installation with no tweaks - the benefit will be to all users like myself who are NOT proficient in Unix.
Step one:-
Run the workgroup manager application, and add a new user account - for this example we will use the username "MAILADMIN". Also make sure you take note of the password entered as you will need this later. Make sure that mail is ENABLED (Pop & Imap) for this user. Save settings
Imp!! Also make sure that Imap & Pop Mail option is selected for all users (i.e. Not just Pop)
Step two:-
add the username MAILADMIN to the admins: line in the file /etc/imapd.conf
i.e. it should read admins: cyrus MAILADMIN
You can use emacs - i.e. emacs /etc/imapd.conf
Step three:-
From server admin application - stop mail.. wait thirty seconds... and then start mail
Step four:-
Using "Terminal" (in Applications/Utilities folder) you will need to configure Cyrus
Type the following :-
/usr/bin/cyrus/admin/cyradm -u MAILADMIN -server YOURMAILSERVERHERE.com (Both Password and IMAP Password are the SAME as you entered for User Mailadmin in Step one)
sam user/* mailadmin lrswipcda
exit
(Type exit until you exit the Cyrus application)
** The above gives the account "mailadmin" ALL rights to ALL the various mailboxes that are stored in the user/ mail directory **
Step five:-
From server admin application - stop mail.. wait thirty seconds... and then start mail
** Upon restarting mail, your new mailbox settings take effect **
Step six:-
In the "Mail" program (i.e. the standard Mac OS X Mail.app)add a new Imap Account.
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
Username is "MAILADMIN"
password is same as entered earlier
In the Advanced Tab - Make sure "Enable this account" is checked
MOST IMPORTANT - Make sure the "Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes" button is checked. This tells your Mail program to automatically check all the assorted mailboxes to which you have just granted yourself permissions to in Step 2.
Also the port is the standard port 143 (Imap) - NOT 626 as in older versions of OS X server.
Voila! Easy access to all user mailboxes via your standard Mail application - Enjoy! =) - Rohin
