Hi again, I think I am very close to find the main reason of my weird mailbox problems. Today I tried to setup a corrupted mail account as a pop3 account and the client gave me 'Unable to lock maildrop'. I googled this error and found a reply on a mailing list which says this can be because of TCP timeout. When I saw this reply I remembered that I have changed our firewall apliance which had a static route rule to route the packages for the mail servers public IP address to another firewall apliance which has my mail server on its DMZ. I removed the old firewall apliance and installed a new one(which is netscreen), created the same static route rule and that day these weird problems started to came from the users. I guess there is a problem with the netscreens static routing because even if I request ssh to the public IP of the mail server, session drops suddenly if I keep the ssh client idle for a few seconds. If anyone has an idea it will be appreciated. >> When I first saw this problem I was suspicious about an outlook bug but >> when >> I saw that there are more than one users having the same problem I >> changed >> my mind because we are using cyrus on sles9 for nearly 4 years and we >> didnt >> have such problems. But anyway I will check the mailboxes with a >> different >> mail client. I am also thinking about disabling quota for all users for a >> short time just to solve the problem until I setup a mor recent version >> of >> cyrus on a different server. Is there a way to disable quota for all >> users >> with a single step? > > I'm not sure but I think a brute force method is to remove all quota files > in /var/lib/imap/quota (or wherever that directory is in on your server). > Of course cyrus-imapd should be stopped while doing it. If I remember > correctly I did this once to "fix" broken quota on a server. But don't > blame me if it breaks your server... > > Simon > >> >> Thanks >> >> ---- >> 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
