using Cyrus was Re: Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:25 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> 
>>>Sounds like a classic case where postfix and CyrusIMAPD are going to be 
>>>the best solution for this person - postfix with mysql is hosted in 
>>>CentOSPlus, so you dont need to go "work out the schema" yourself, use 
>>>Cyrus + Web-cyradmin + pam_mysql, and you are done.
>>
>>What does one do when the indexes for a mailbox gets hosed? I know of 
>>one person who used cyrus and when it got hosed, he came running to me 
>>to get him a mail system up and running pronto.
> 
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> generally - I would use...
> 
> su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -fr user.USERNAME'

ah. I guess that person had another problem then...probably this one 
mentioned in the docs...

sorry, i have not used cyrus yet. thanks for the information craig.

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Mailboxes File
The mailboxes file in the configuration directory is the most critical 
file in the entire Cyrus IMAP system. It contains a sorted list of each 
mailbox on the server, along with the mailboxes quota root and ACL. 
Because the ACL is security-critical information that cannot be 
reconstructed from information stored elsewhere, there is no program to 
recover from a damaged mailboxes file.

To protect the contents of the mailboxes, we suggest making frequent, 
even hourly backups of the mailboxes file to some other part of the disk.

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