I seem to have fixed this, but I'm not sure if there's a better way. I did it by:
- Going into each mailbox
- Deleting all cyrus* files
- Reconstructing the mailbox
Here's the script I used.
#! /bin/bash
# Rebuild all cyrus imap mailboxes
# rjm 20230723
# To be run by the cyrus user
if [ $USER != "cyrus" ]
then
echo "This script should be run by the 'cyrus' user."
exit
fi
# First, go to the top of the uuid mailboxes
pushd /var/spool/cyrus/mail/uuid > /dev/null 2>&1
# Now go through all the mailboxes, ignoring comments
for mbox in `cat /var/spool/cyrus/mailboxes.txt | sed -e '/^#/d'`
do
# Find its directory
mbdir=`/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/mbpath $mbox`
pushd $mbdir > /dev/null 2>&1
ls -la cyrus*
# Now to reconstruct the mailbox
rm -f cyrus*
# Return to home directory
popd > /dev/null 2>&1
# Now reconstruct the mailbox
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct $mbox
done
popd > /dev/null 2>&1
You'll need to put a copy of /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.txt into /var/spool/cyrus, edit it as necessary to include only the mailboxes you want to fix (comments are allowed with '#'), and run this script as the cyrus user (or whatever runs imapd in your box).
You should probably shut down the imapd service before running this. Note that it could take quite a long time.
