I had a situation where I shut down the cyrus system and did a database reset (ran these steps) to fix a problem with LMPTD (it worked btw). # serveradmin stop mail $ sudo -u cyrusimap bash $ cd /var/imap/ $ rm db/* $ rm db.backup?/* $ rm deliver.db $ rm tls_sessions.db $ /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxes.txt $ mv mailboxes.db mailboxes.db.old $ /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d < mailboxes.txt # serveradmin start mail If you noticed, the second to last step I left the "-d" instead of running "-u". This instead created a blank mailboxes.db file. The problem is that mail kept coming in between then and the five minutes that it took me to realize that I had screwed up. The problem is that everyone who received mail had their inbox reset so that their email numbers start back at "1.". The bigger problem is that they can't read their email that was in their inbox before the email number got set to 1. and some of these people had THOUSANDS of emails. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this problem? It affects all my faculty in my department and they are pretty pissed off. Thanks David -- =========================================== David Korpiewski Software Specialist I CSCF - Computer Science Computing Facility Department of Computer Science Phone: 413-545-4319 Fax: 413-577-2285 =========================================== ---- 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
