On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:45:28AM +0000, David Mayo wrote: > 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! No, you should be fine. There were no format changes between 2.3.10 and 2.3.16 I'm pretty sure. I'll check the changelog first... yep, changelog looks fine. > >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. Yeah - rename is your friend :) And telnet makes it a bit easier. > >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! Oh, good. Glad you're fixed up :) Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
