i did as you've said this is now the output of synctest S: * STARTTLS S: * OK mars.edpausa.com Cyrus sync server v2.3.7 Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 /var/log/messages shows : Dec 12 20:56:21 mars syncserver[489]: login: [192.168.0.201] cyrus PLAIN+TLS User logged in Dec 12 20:56:35 mars syncserver[313]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication Dec 12 20:56:35 mars syncserver[313]: login: [192.168.0.201] cyrus PLAIN+TLS User logged in ---- it seems that something did happen it replicated all the active mailboxes ( there are a few innactive from the people who recently left and a few test mailboxes) and replicated only active subfolders of these boxes. so out of 121GB only 58 GB have been replicated i see in logs things like this Dec 12 20:56:45 mars syncserver[313]: Expunged 1 messages from user.stas Dec 12 21:01:50 mars syncserver[313]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/user/e/edpa.seen.313 (2 records, 11608 bytes) in 0 seconds so something is defetnly going on but why is it replicating only active mailboxes/subfolders ?? ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html