On 04/23/2014 08:45 AM, Y B wrote:
thanks for the answer. I certainly still have the metadata since I have not lost any file, I have just too many files (all the previously deleted emails, recovered from my rsync backup) I am not exactly sure where the metadata are situated, /var/imap does not exist. In my case, all email files are situated at /data/mail/imap/spool/*/user/username (the star being any letter of the alphabet). For a given username, I have for example the following files: -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21183 Apr 23 11:01 4846. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 26585 Apr 23 10:49 4845. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 15720 Apr 23 10:39 4844. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4496548 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 251 Mar 10 16:52 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 151816 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.index -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10087920 Jan 22 02:28 cyrus.squat drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 23 13:11 Sent drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 23 09:38 Drafts drwx------ 4 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 22 20:45 Trash drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 22 20:30 spam Are the metadata in the cyrus.* files? If yes, is there an easy way to delete the old emails using these metadata? Thank you. Yannick
Yes, metadata files are the cyrus.* files. What version of Cyrus are you running? You should be able to run reconstruct on the mailboxes with the -n option which should list the files that reconstruct would have added back to the index if the -n option was not used. Use this output to determine which files can be deleted.
For example I added some bogus files called 1. , 101. , and 255. to my mailbox.
reconstruct -n user.boutilpj user.boutilpj uid 1 rediscovered - appending user.boutilpj uid 101 rediscovered - appending user.boutilpj uid 255 rediscovered - appending user.boutilpj
2014-04-22 15:06 GMT+02:00 Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx>>: On 04/22/2014 09:19 AM, Y B wrote: Hello, after a disk crash, I had to recover all the emails from a daily backup. Unfortunately, I noticed that this backup was made with the rsync command but WITHOUT the --delete options. That means that the mail backup was much larger than the original one since no message was ever deleted on the backup. Now I would like to clean the mailboxes and remove all those emails that were previously deleted but I cannot find how. Is there any easy way to do this? (I use cyrus+postfix on debian 6.0.4) Thank you for your help. Did you lose your metadata as well? Usually in /var/imap ? Yannick ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/__pipermail/info-cyrus/ <http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/> To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/__mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus <https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus> ---- 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
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