I am currently pulling my hair out, trying to get this to work... Lemme show you a cyradm session, with some carriage returns thrown in for reading ease: Incidentally, we're running "unixhierarchysep: yes". localhost> ls -l /var/mail/c/user/calvizio -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 1911537 2007-09-07 02:43 1. -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 3717492 2007-09-07 02:43 2. -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 6364 2007-09-07 02:43 3. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 32252 2007-09-14 11:52 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 183 2007-09-14 12:32 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1636 2007-09-14 11:52 cyrus.index localhost> lam user/calvizio* user/calvizio: cyrus lrswipcda calvizio lrswipcda user/calvizio/INBOX: cyrus lrswipcda calvizio lrswipcda localhost> cm user/calvizio/INBOX createmailbox: Mailbox already exists localhost> sam user/calvizio cyrus all localhost> sam user/calvizio/INBOX cyrus all setaclmailbox: cyrus: lrswipcda: System I/O error localhost> reconstruct user/calvizio localhost> reconstruct user/calvizio/INBOX reconstruct: System I/O error localhost> cm user/calvizio/INBOX createmailbox: Mailbox already exists localhost> dm user/calvizio/INBOX deletemailbox: System I/O error AGH.... I tried actually creating the dirs in the file system to match, and re-owning them to cyrus:mail, to no avail. Furthermore, ONE of the time I tried to create the mailbox, I typed "cm INBOX" instead of "cm user/calvizio/INBOX" by mistake, and now I have this wacko little mailbox called "INBOX" at the top of everything: localhost> lm INBOX (\HasNoChildren) I can't seem to delete this little monster either.... Any ideas? Thanks, Rick Kunkel On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > > --On Friday, September 14, 2007 8:27 -0700 Rick Kunkel <kunkel@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Where I've been stuck recently is trying to figure out things like how to >> manipulate mailboxes by using the file system. Maybe this isn't really >> practical using mdir. >> >> Here's the latest: I have a user that we migrated from mbox. She has >> her inbox folder, which migrated fine. Then she has a couple of other >> folder, which migrated fine. Then she has folders within folders, and >> those refuse to show up, and it won't let her subscribe to them. Here's >> how it they're in the filesystem: >> >> /var/mail/j/user/janedoe <-- Inbox: Migrated fine >> /var/mail/j/user/janedoe/folder1 <-- Also migrated fine >> /var/mail/j/user/janedoe/folder1/folderA <-- I can't get to show >> >> I don't think the user really NEEDS the folder called folder1 above, but >> wants the folders inside of it. So I tried to move folderA back one >> level so that it was sitting inside the /var/mail/j/user/janedoe folder, >> but that doesn't work. I figured I had to run a reconstruct command, >> but no avail there either. >> >> I guess the fundamental question here are these: >> >> - If I make changes to the file system, how do I get these reflected in >> Cyrus mailbox views? > > > It's less painful if you can use Cyrus to do this stuff. I know :-) > The main reason you might have to do this would be restoring entire > mailboxes off backups. > > Given /var/mail/j/user/janedoe/folder1/folderA , Cyrus might have > three mailboxes named user.janedoe, user.janedoe.folder, and > user.janedoe.folder.folderA, but not necessarily. > > cyradm will show you what folders exist, in Cyrus's view, and it > lets you create, delete, and rename mailboxes to make the Cyrus > view be what you want it to be. Cyrus will move the files around > in the filesystem accordingly. > > To do batch work a perl script can use Cyrus::IMAP::Admin to do > what cyradm would do. > > When we migrated from mbox, we created Cyrus mailboxes for the > directories too. For ~janedoe/mail/foo/bar (mbox file) we created > both user.janedoe.foo and user.janedoe.foo.bar, even though the > user had never stored mail in foo (since it was a directory). > This seemed simpler than having to explain later that foo could > be part of a mailbox name but not exist as a mailbox! > > Joseph Brennan > Lead Email Systems Engineer > Columbia University Information Technology > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- > 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 > ---- 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
