Diego V wrote: > > As I can see I, having exactly the same problem as Robert. Here some > more info on what I did. > Please, I really need some help. > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Im having a really bad time restoring my imap server. > > > > My cyrus server discs died and I was just able to recover some > of the > > data. > > I have almost everything from /var/spool/imap but none from > /var/lib/imap > > > > Thus I copy just one user's mailbox for testing. I created that > user again > > with cyradm, then copied all messages to its > > /var/spool/imap/f/user/foouser > > folder. Run reconstruct for that mailbox. > > So far so good. Now, when trying to check mails both from > outlook and > > thunderbird I cant see any messages. > > > > Boht partiotions have permissions set. chown -R cyrus.mail . > chmod -R 750 > > > > Apparently, clients are looking where they should. I get these > lines on > > maillog when I ty to browse a folder: > > open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder > > open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder2 > > > > No messages are shown though but all files are on those mail > folders. Ive > > run every database or mailbox reconstruction utility with no > success. > > > > > Do you see the following files in /var/spool/imap/f/user/foouser > cyrus.cache > cyrus.header > cyrus.index > > > Yes, The cyrus files are there on each folder- > > > > and in /var/lib/imap/user/f/ > foouser.seen > foouser.sub > > Also there. > > > And did you use the -f option with reconstruct? > > > > Yes, I did > > Just used ctl_mboxlist -d to see if the user's mailboxes were actually > in mailboxes.db and yes they are. > Dont have a clue about what to do now. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ---- > 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 Hi activating "subscription" for the folders in the email-client made it work for me. but it has to be done clientside, and for every email client if different ones are used, also for webmail. regards, Robert Noll ---- 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
