smbfs and cyrus

Jules Agee julesa at pcf.com
Wed Jan 13 15:55:42 EST 2010


Thilo Rießner wrote:
> If seen the post about network file system and cyrus, but in our case we have 
> to use a smbfs mounted partition for cyrus (at least for some time). It works 
> quite well so far, but now I have to do a reconstruct for my mailbox, because 
> ther was a problem. The reconstruct seems to do its work quite ok, but if I 
> look in my mail-client afterwards, all mails are gone. On the hard disk (the 
> smbfs share) the mail files are still there??? This ist the opposite of what 
> reconstruct is expected to do! What can I do to see the mails again?
> Many thanks for any help in advance.

Check the file permissions and ownership of your mail files and the
cyrus files in the directory you reconstructed. The reconstruct command
needs to be run as the Cyrus user.

-- 
Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284



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