All,
I have run a small mail service based on Cyrus IMAP for a few
years. The (CentOS 5) server I've used for the past couple years failed
last week. I brought up a new CentOS 5 system on a new Linux server,
installed cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3, mounted the old /var disk
(actually one of 2 mdadm submirrors), and copied /var/spool/imap over to
the new /var FS. It's running CentOS' cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3 RPM.
Unfortunately, for many users (all but me?), mail clients (at least
Apple's Mail.app and SquirrelMail) don't show any messages from before
the migration in INBOX. When I grope around in /var/spool/imap/user, I
see the old message (with high numbers) and the new messages (starting a
new sequence from 1).
I know there are last-message counters in the cyrus.* files, so
would resetting those have caused IMAP to start storing new messages
from 1. and vanish the old ones? I don't know how those could have been
cleared for at least 6 users simultaneously. Presumably it happened for
all, and I just fixed it for myself somehow.
More importantly, I don't know how to make the old messages
accessible to my users via IMAP (I can give them the files, but that's
quite awkward). chk_cyrus agrees with IMAP clients about message counts
(very low). I have tried reconstruct with various combinations of
"-rfx", and "quota -f", but not found any way to make it show the old
messages.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Chris
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