> HI all: > > I'm running Cyrus IMAP 2.3.7 in a CentOS 5.3 box. We have about 400 users, > most of them POP3 users but some are IMAP users with their mail stored at > the mailserver. > I recently had a out of space problem, so I removed so many unnecesary > files > (logs, backups, among others) and then restarted mail services > (MailScanner, > MySQL, ClamAV, Cyrus IMAP, etc)... but I had this problem with Cyrus IMAP: > > # /etc/init.d/cyrus restart > Apagando cyrus-imapd: [ OK ] > Exportando la base de datos cyrus-imapd : [ OK ] > > ... ... > ... ... > > this takes so long that I decided to investigate what was the problem and > I > found that /var/lib/imap/db uses 21 GB. Is is normal that uses so many > space? I found around 1700 files named log.000* and I just decided to not > use them: > > # cd /var/lib/imap > # mv db db2 > # cp -a db.backup db > # /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start > > And then Cyrus IMAP started correctly (because /var/lib/imap/db.backup > ocuped just a few KB) but now IMAP users are telling me that their e-mails > are gone! However I can see that all their mails are under > /var/spool/imap/domain/X/XDOMAIN/u/user using a few hundreds of MB so I > can > believe that their emails aren't gone. > > What happened to users emails? How can I recover them? Did you try to run reconstruct? Something like su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r -f user.xxxxxxxxx" may help. Regards, Simon ---- 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
