Simon Matter wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I had to restore a users mailbox from backup which went well. After >> running reconstruct on the users mailbox I did a quota -f. That fixed >> this particular users quota but screwed another ones, used quota was at >> about 1/6 of actual. > > I had that kind of problem more than once. IIRC there were different > reasons why it happened. 1) There were versions of cyrus-imapd which had > somehow broken quota functionality. If you used those version you ended up > with some problems. 2) Using quota -f on a somehow corrupt mailspool > resulted in all kind of funny things. Fixing everything witch reconstruct > first has helped, but I think I still had to run quota -f twice after it > at least with certain versions of cyrus-imapd. The current 2.3.x version > seem to do fine with me. A little bit of Vodoo in there yes, I should have mentioned that the version is 2.3.8. What was really odd was the fact that quota -f fixed the mailbox I had restored and then proceeded to screw the qouta on another. But does anyone know why it is not recommended to use "quota -f <mailbox>"? AFAICS it fixed the problem for me and nothing bad happened. --per ---- 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
