Alain Spineux said:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Shelley Waltz <shwaltz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alain Spineux said:
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Shelley Waltz
>>> <shwaltz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Simon Matter said:
>>>>>> I just created a new cyrus-2.3.7-2 server on RHEL5. I created the
>>>>>> /etc/imapd.conf and started up /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On my old cyrus-2.2 server, the /var/spool/imap has all the
>>>>>> directories
>>>>>> for the user's mail files under a b c ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Question is ... I specified /var/spool/imap as the sppol directory
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> imapd.conf. however, when I started cyrus, no a b c ... directories
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> created. Does this only happen as I add accounts or migrate
>>>>>> accounts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I migrated my mailboxes.db to the new server, so I need to create the
>>>> /var/spool/imap/{a-z}/user/username/* and reconstruct?
>>>
>>> No need to create dirs! reconstruct is able to read mailbox.db and
>>> reconstruct all missing
>>> directories
>>>
>>> using something like:(depending "unixhierarchysep")
>>>
>>> $ reconstruct -rf user/*
>
> Ops, you need to specify the domain name
>
> $ reconstruct -rf user/*@mydomain.com
>
> is working for me
>
> $ reconstruct -rf user/*
> will reconstruct only mailbox in the defaultdomain
>
>>> or
>>> $ reconstruct -rf user.*
>
> I dont know the domain notation here sorry
>
>>>
>>> -r is a little broken and can be useless, but the '*' wilcard do the
>>> job
>>>
>>
>>
>> I loaded mailboxes.db using ctl_mboxlist -u <mailboxes.dump where
>> mailboxes.dump is a dump of the mailboxes on my old server. I then try
>> reconstruct -rf user.* and no mailboxes under /var/spool/imap are
>> reconstructed? The mailboxes.db contains the mailboxes as I can see
>> them
>> if I do a ctl_mboxlist -d >mailboxes.dump2 . I see no messages in
>> /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog. Why aren't they created?
>> unixhierarchysep is 0, the default of "."
The issue was my not having run /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/mkimap . Once I did
this, the reconstruct worked fine. Thanks!
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