On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Andre Bischof wrote: > Hi, > > 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.BENUTZERNAME > > The 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. You can copy the recovered ###. files back into your normal mailbox directory and then run reconstruct (and quota -f, if you have a quota) afterwards. Until you run reconstruct, the messages won't appear to IMAP clients. I can't tell you anything about why the messages were deleted though. :) Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
