Quoting Kővári János <bsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
2021.09.08. 15:51 keltezéssel, Michael Menge írta:
It es not recommended to use
Haha, ich weiss woher es kommt. :)
4. You see your folders in your mailclient. So cyrus is able to
read mailboxes.db
Ummm, nope? Unless you mean the output of mboxlist. But in my mail
client (thunderbird) I don't see anything. That's the main problem.
Or is mboxlist regarded as a client? That interacts with the server?
mboxlist is not a client but a cli tool that accesses the mailboxes.db file
but i think I have an idea whats going on.
the default value of "altnamespace" has changed
quoting man imapd.conf
altnamespace: 1
Use the alternate IMAP namespace, where personal folders reside
at the same level in the hierarchy as INBOX.
This option ONLY applies where interaction takes place with the
client/user. Currently this is limited to the IMAP protocol
(imapd) and Sieve scripts (lmtpd). This option does NOT apply
to admin tools such as cyradm (admins ONLY), reconstruct, quota,
etc., NOR does it affect LMTP delivery of messages directly to
mailboxes via plus-addressing. The default changed in 3.0 from
off to on.
this in combination that you are an admin might have confused thunderbird
you can imtest to send IMAP commands to any IMAP server without having
to handle ssl/tls or encode username and password
Compare the output of "list" and "lsub" commands after changing
altnamespace back to 0 and/or removing your account from the "admin"
and "imap_admins"
See https://www.atmail.com/blog/imap-101-manual-imap-sessions/ for
more details
but in short
"imtest -a myusername -t ''" for imap with starttls or "imtest -a
myusername -s" for imaps
and send the following commands after authentication
a NAMESPACE
b LIST "" "*"
c LSUB "" "*"
7. You did run "reconstruct -V max" which upgrades the metadata
files for the folders to the
newest version, but AFSIK does not try to fix any other problems
with the mailbox.
As you don't see the old mails there could be a problem the
metadata files
Just to learn the terminology: what are those metadata files? the
cache and header and index files in every folder?
any cyrus.* file in each mailbox. The imapd.conf manpage lists them
all in the metaparition_files option but without information what they
are used for.
BTW those have a datetime of:
cyrus.annotations: 2018??? is that normal? is this file still being
used and what is it actually? But obviously neither the upgrade nor
reconstruct or anything has touched those files. Were probably
created upon the installation oand setup of this box and probably
haven't been touched ever since.
cyrus.cache and index: current time. I did send myself a new email
to test (and it arrived fine again, and could delete it as well).
probably that's the timestamp of these files.
cyrus.header: yesterday.
yes some don't change often
You can run "reconstruct -n -r user/myusername" this will check all
your folders without changing
them and if it finds old mails run again without "-n"
How do I know if it finds old mails? It just spit out the user's
full folder tree under it's mailbox, similarly to ctl_mboxlist, but
without the ACLs etc. Just a plain dir tree.
it will tell you with additional lines. If only the folder names are
listed than no problem was found
Oh and just to be sure: I did run the reconstruct with the server
stopped. I thought it wouldn't like it's files being possibly
manipulated while it uses them. Is it how it supposed to be done? Or
rather with the server running?
reconstruct can be use while the server is running, but in some cases
(e.g. after an upgrade)
it is best to run reconstruct while the server is still down so that
there is no access to the
mailboxes before reconstruct has completed his task.
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