A script to find each file and IMAP append it? Just thinking outside the box here! "Chris Pepper" <pepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 10/4/10 9:17 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> Simon, >>> >>> I did recover /var/lib/imap (although a bit later, FWIW) and >> >> I think "a bit later" is your problem. But I think reconstruct should fix >> this. >> BTW, did you check the subscription status of mailboxes? Maybe the folders >> are there but not subscribed, and that's why some users can't see them? > >Simon, > > No, users see the folders, just not old messages. For most (all?) >INBOXes but my own, new messages started arriving as 1. and continued >from there. Users can see the new mail, but not the old. This makes me >think it's not an internal permissions problem, because they see the >mailboxes and (some) mail in them. All file permissions I checked appear >correct > > "reconstruct -rfx" doesn't help. Is there anything else to try? > >Thanks, > >Chris > >>> /etc/imapd.conf. I just now compared /etc/cyrus.conf and added squatter >>> & adjusted prefork numbers -- the rest all matched. >>> >>> Is there other configuration I should check? Both systems are 64-bit >>> CentOS 5, so the db4 installations should be fully compatible. >> >> If both the old and the new system are basically the same I don't think >> there is anything missing. >> >> Simon >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> On 10/4/10 8:36 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>> 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? >>> >> >> >---- >Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ >List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
