I renamed that file from 3056 to 3056. I could now delete it, but it still was not readable cheers Bernhard On 29/03/2008, Bernhard Rohrer <bernhard.graylion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > on second looks it seems that no file has a trailing '.', so that > doesn't seem to be it? I'll rename and will see where that ends > > cheers > > > B > > On 29/03/2008, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi folks > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > I guess you messed up your mailspool somehow. Cyrus-IMAPd uses per message > > files with the name "####.". The file you're looking at doesn't have the > > leading dot, so somehow that can not work and I wonder how that happened. > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > cyrus clearly also has the permissions to access this. > > > > > > hjaelp! > > > > > > what else do you need? is there a verbose flag that I can set > > > somewhere to get more info? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Bernhard > > > > > ---- > > > 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
