I'm using cyrus for years now, and have to say that it is a great piece of software, best fitting to my needs.
Actually I use 2.2 (imap,pop3 amongst others) with Debian stable/testing.
Two days ago I had to recognize that my mail client (thunderbird) only showed a handful of mails in my inbox when there should be thousands, reaching approx. 10 years back.
Strange enough, my snapshot backup (faubackup) showed only a few more, going days, weeks and month back.
I assumed there might be a problem with the disk and tested it thouroughly, but neither chkdsk nor SMART or other utilities would show errors or problems.
I checked mail logs and aptitude.log as well, but there was nothing of interest to me, neither updates nor lots of deleted mails, only some expunged ones, but not too much.
At this very moment I'm recovering files using testdisk - at least something.
Could one of you tell me whether it's ok to just copy recovered files back to /var/spool/cyrus/mail/f/user/f-user/ ? Or am I supposed to recover with cyrus admin tools like:
sudo -u cyrus /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -C /etc/imapd.conf -rf user.BENUTZERNAMEThe file cyrus.header only contains:
Cyrus mailbox header
"The best thing about this system was that it had lots of goals."
--Jim Morris on Andrew
478a94914314724f
NonJunk Junk $Forwarded $MDNSent $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 $has_cal
frisco lrswipcda
Any hints to recover my mails are VERY ;) appreciated, as well as suggestions what might be the cause of the problem.
Regards
Andre
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