> 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. Did you also recover /var/lib/imap from the old server and make sure the configs are the same? Simon > > 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 > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
