On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, anant@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ----- Message from morgan@xxxxxxxx --------- > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:33:03 -0800 (PST) > From: Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user. > To: anant@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, anant@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> ----- Message from morgan@xxxxxxxx --------- >>> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:55:04 -0800 (PST) >>> From: Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user. >>> To: anant@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> Cc: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >>> >>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, anant@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> >>>>>>>>> One of the users mailbox has one more level of sub folder like >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> user.xxx.ABC >>>>>>>>> user.xxx.ABC.def >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Right now, folders of level user.xxx are seen, but folders at >>>>>>>>> user.xxx.ABC including ABC are not seen. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Should I run, >>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.xxx.ABC now? That is when >>>>>>>>> Cyrus-imapd is already running? Or I should stop the service and run >>>>>>>>> reconstruct? Please advise. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You can run reconstruct and quota while cyrus-imapd is running. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If reconstruct does not succeed, verify the mailbox(es) are >>>>>>>> listed within >>>>>>>> the output of 'ctl_mboxlist -d'. If not, you should add them >>>>>>>> via cyradm. >>>>>>>> reconstruct may also fail for a given mailbox if you are missing the >>>>>>>> cyrus.* files within its directory. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You might wish to backup the contents of the directories in >>>>>>>> question before >>>>>>>> proceeding, in case you end up with missing flags or other data. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Dan White >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What I found is >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. /var/spool/imap/user/xxx exists >>>>>>> 2. /var/spool/imap/user has several directories >>>>>>> 3. All other directories except ABC are listed as folders under >>>>>>> user.xxx and are seen by IMAP clients. >>>>>>> 4. ABC directory has subfolders like >>>>>>> /var/spool/imap/user/xxx/ABC/1, 2 3 etc and each of these >>>>>>> subdirectories has cyrus.* files except ABC directory. As you >>>>>>> said, as ABC directory does not have cyrus.* files, reconstruct >>>>>>> has failed to recognise it and hence its subdirectories. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Should I run reconstruct -r -f user.xxx.ABC or cm user.xxx.ABC >>>>>>> and then run reconstruct -r -f user.xxx.ABC? >>>>>> >>>>>> Create a cyrus.header file in the ABC directory, set the ownership >>>>>> and permissions. Something like this: >>>>>> >>>>>> touch cyrus.header >>>>>> chown cyrus:mail cyrus.header >>>>>> chmod 600 cyrus.header >>>>>> >>>>>> Then run: >>>>>> >>>>>> reconstruct -x -f user.xxx.ABC >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I should have asked at the beginning - are there any message files >>>>>> in (1., 2., 3., etc) in the ABC directory? >>>>>> >>>>>> Andy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> NO. There are no message files in ABC directory. There are only >>>>> directories in ABC directory and each such directory has message >>>>> files and also cyrus.* files. >>>>> >>>>> I am thinking of another option, move all such directories under >>>>> ABC to one level higher, that is at user.xxx level and run >>>>> reconstruct -r -f user.xxx. >>>>> >>>>> But, you still suggest, which is the best way. >>>> >>>> What happens when you run: >>>> >>>> reconstruct -x -f user.xxx.ABC.def >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> Andy >>> >>> >>> NO output. lm does not list user.xxx.ABC or user.XXX.ABC.def. >> >> Hmmm. Could this be a bug in reconstruct? Maybe it won't >> reconstruct a mailbox is the parent is not also a mailbox... >> >> Why don't you try creating user.xxx.ABC in cyradm, then running the >> same reconstruct command? >> >> Andy > > > YES. This helped and all folders got recognised. Thank you for your guidance. > > Regards, > Anant. I found an existing bug report that covers this: https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2125 I updated the bug report with an example of how to reproduce the problem, which is still present in v2.4.17. This bug was originally created 2003-07-30. :) 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
