On Fri, March 28, 2008 10:32 pm, Bernhard Rohrer wrote: > I am running a cyrus server for a few users, mainly myself and I > recently had a catastropic failure that led to me reconstructing the server > from an older installation. > > OS is Ubuntu Gutsy, Cyrus 2.2 > > > I copied /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/cyrus back and followed the > instructions here to get my databases back. this works fine in principle, > but leaves me with this problem: > > In my Thunderbird I see a bunchload of empty messages, that show read, > unread, replied, forwarded marks and nothing else. no subject, no contents. > > > When I try to delete on I get an error message that the IMAP server > reported an IO error and syslog says: Mar 29 01:33:41 collab > cyrus/imap[26479]: IOERROR: opening 3056.: No such file or directory > > > This screenshot here (http://www.sm-wg.net/Thunderbird.png) shows in > the background said Thunderbird with the email that I tried to delete > marked and in the foreground midnight commander showing the very directory > and message. > > root@collab:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/houselion# ls -al 3056 > -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 4369 2008-03-13 00:11 3056 > > > cyrus clearly also has the permissions to access this. How did you restore the actual mail files, and did that process change the filenames? Either you made a typo in your mail message above, or the file that cyrus is looking for, "3056." doesn't exist in that directory. Rather, "3056" does. Notice the missing '.' character. Thanks, Dave ---- 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
