Bron, On 24/11/10 23:01, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:13:11PM +0100, Michael Menge wrote: >>> We're running Cyrus 2.3.13. > > Any reason why so old? There were some fixes for this shipped > more in the later 2.3 series releases, because we had the same > issue at FastMail! 2.3.14 had bugs (didn't work with group: ACLs) and 2.3.15 wouldn't compile happily on Solaris due to issues with compression libraries, as I recall. By then, the servers were live so we stayed at that version. If we did upgrade from 2.3.13 -> 2.3.16 is there anything that would prevent us from downgrading again if we hit problems? The changelog does show quite a few improvements! >> Do you use delete_mode: delayed ? >> this will rename the folder to $DELETEPREFIX.$OLDNAME.$TIMESTAMP >> which would result in a longer Name. >> >> You can try to rename it to a shorter name and >> deleting the renamed folder? > > That's what I was going to say! That's how we wound up dealing > with the worst offenders. cyradm wouldn't let me even type a name that long! Perhaps I could have done it via a telnet session, but after DELETE returned "Invalid mailbox name" I kinda assumed nothing would work. > If you live anywhere near the Apple campus you could go over and > have a few choice words with thier mail client developers too... > > FYI: more recent Cyrus rejects the creation of any mailbox with > INBOX.INBOX (any case) in the internal name (so user.foo.Inbox is > still fine, but user.foo.Inbox.Inbox is not) Yes - this would be handy. >> An other ideas is to remove the mailboxname from the mailbox.db and >> deleting it on the filesystem. >> >> Use on your own risk >> cyr_dbtool $configdirectory/mailboxes.db skiplist delete >> user.abc20.INBOX...... > > Yep! That will definitely work. That's what I did in the end, and it worked a treat! Regards, Dave. David Mayo Networks/Systems Administrator University of Bath Computing Services, UK ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
