On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Simon Matter might have said: > > Sometime during the night something happend to my imap store about (23:19 > > CST). I have executed 'ctl_mboxlist -u < $backup' from two days ago to > > recover the mboxlist and have done a 'reconstruct -r user.$USER' for a few > > users to get their $USER.seen folders working again. The process lmtpunix > > is aborting, I cannot receive email (sendmail to deliver). I can still > > send mail out (through sendmail) so that part's working. > > > > I'm concerned that I need to recover my primary imap databases. > > > > Can someone help me diagnose what's going on and how to fix it (and what > > happened)? > > > > I am a small site with less than 30 email accounts in cyrus. > > > > There were no cyrus, sendmail, nor other email changes yesterday. > > Hm, the 2.3.1 package you use may not be the most stable. Anyway, I guess > you have checked the basic things like full filesystems and so. Then, what > I suggest is > > stop cyrus-imapd > mv /var/lib/imap/deliver.db /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.old > mv /var/lib/imap/db /var/lib/imap/db.old > mv /var/lib/imap/db.backup1 /var/lib/imap/db.backup1.old > mv /var/lib/imap/db.backup2 /var/lib/imap/db.backup2.old > do a full offline reconstruct and start cyrus again > > Simon The full reconstruct did nothing for the 'Defer' I'm getting when sendmail tries to give a message to lmtpunix. What next? Mike ---- 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