On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Paul van der Vlis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a customer where some important sub-mailboxes are gone. Other > sub-mailboxes are still there. > The customer is using Cyrus 2.1 and Thunderbird 1.5 as IMAP client. > The backups are too old. > > In Cyrus 2.2 I see something like "Delete mailbox ..." in the logs when > a mailbox is deleted, but in Cyrus 2.1 there is nothing in the logs when > a mailbox is deleted, correct? > > When I delete a mailbox in Thunderbird I get many warnings, I don't > think they have really deleted the mailbox. Maybe they moved it by > accident to another location, but I cannot find it. Did you search the file system ? something like : # find /var/spool/imap/ -type d You you find the missing directory in you filesystem, but cannot access them using imap client, this is because the mailbox.db file is corrupted. You can use cyrreconstruct to "re-discover" the missing folder. Regards > > What could be wrong? > > With regards? > Paul van der Vlis. > > > > > -- > http://www.vandervlis.nl/ > > > ---- > 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 > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ---- 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