Hi! >> I can imagine situations where this is not what you want. > > I can't. Please share a couple. If they are currupted for whatever reason? I mean, by the books, reconstruct is a utility which you should not need, because if nothing ever goes wrong, you will never have a need to reconstruct mailboxes. Also if I follow the subject recently discussed in a thread here, which basically says: "Hands off the files, if you need to move things around, do it through IMAP" you could argue that you shouldn't need the -f switch as well. Would it hurt to have a finer grain control of how reconstruct works? Regards, Torsten ---- 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