Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > >> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 08:09:33 am Ian G Batten wrote: >>> I once had to delete the cyrus.* files prior to a reconstruct: they >>> had become toxic to the point that Cyrus's attempts to make use of >>> the information in them was causing problems. >> >> reconstruct won't reconstruct folders that do not have cyrus.* files. >> So, >> either make new folders. Or, copy cyrus.* files from another folder. >> >> You will also need to run quota -f user.<account> to correct the quota. > > You can get reconstruct to work by simply "touch"ing the cyrus.header > file and giving it the correct ownership and permissions. > > I used to recover lost email from backups by restoring the message files > and the cyrus.header file into a new folder, but then I realized that > the mailbox unique id would also be duplicated. After some playing > around I realized that reconstruct will rebuild all the cyrus.* files if > you have an empty cyrus.header file. > > Andy > It would seem that you do not even need the cyrus.header file. When I reconstructed this folder, I did not have any cyrus.* files in the folder, just the email text files, and it reconstructed fine (except for the lost time stamps). ~maria ---- 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
