-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct From: Derrick Seymour <seymourdh@xxxxxxxxx> To: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:20:28 AM > I have been having a few problems as of late. > > First, lost emails. Well they aren't really lost, i > have located them in the imap mail store under the > users name, kind of hidden i guess you would say. not > sure why that is. > > This happens randomly with incoming emails, maybe one > out of a couple thousand. > > My fix to this was to reconstruct the user box. > ... > while this works, it seems to corrupt the inbox, only > the inbox all other folders stay intack. > ... > sudo -u cyrus /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -i > > and of course this fixes the problem of the mail box > does not exist but i always seems to lose some emails > in the process, usually one or two users at random > > You can probably see a very bad cycle here. > ... Sounds like bad RAM maybe corrupting the cyrus databases... Any other indication of file corruption or system locking/freezing/rebooting (things associated with bad memory) ? In a PC I'd run memtest86, dunno if that option is available to you. -Blake ---- 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
