Actually it seems that running "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/username" bring back the mail but the seen information is gone. At least it is a step in the right direction... Mike Eggleston wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, David Korpiewski might have said: > >> 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 > > Morning David, > > Would a ctl_cyrusdb -r to reconstruct the mailboxes fix the issue? > > Mike -- =========================================== 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
