<div dir="ltr"><div><div>OK, I managed to reconstruct my test mailbox. The files that were in my directory structure but not visible in the mailbox are now all visible in my email client.<br></div>Unfortunately, the cyrreconstruct command is not verbose at all and I cannot see the filenames corresponding to rediscovered emails (so I cannot delete them...).<br>
</div>Any clue?<br><br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-23 15:22 GMT+02:00 Y B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ybpubs@gmail.com" target="_blank">ybpubs@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>this seems to be a good way to reach my goal. Unfortunately, my version of cyrreconstruct does not accept the -n option :<br>
<br> cyrreconstruct [ -C config-file ] [ -p partition ] [ -x ] [ -r ] [ -f ] mailbox...<br>
cyrreconstruct [ -C config-file ] -m<br><br>Using cyradm and reconstruct does not allow the -n either, only the recursive flag is allowed (-r). <br><br>I tried to reconstruct the mailbox anyway but nothing seems to happen (i ran the command on a mailbox with one email in INBOX and ten email files but after the execution of the command, nothing changes).<br>
</div></div><br>Related lines in syslog:<br><br><div><div><div>Apr 23 15:06:37 srv1 cyrus/imap[30671]: Reconstructing 'user.davicere' (not recursive) for user 'cyrus'<br>Apr 23 15:06:37 srv1 cyrus/imap[30672]: Regenerating quota roots starting with 'user.davicere' for user 'cyrus'<br>
<br></div><div>My version of cyrus : 2.2.13<br>cyrus@srv1:~$ cyradm localhost<br>localhost> ver<br>name : Cyrus IMAPD<br>version : v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-19+squeeze3 2006/12/19 19:32:59<br>vendor : Project Cyrus<br>
support-url: <a href="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus" target="_blank">http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus</a><br>os : Linux<br>os-version : 2.6.26-1-xen-686<br><br><br></div><div>With which version of cyrus can you use the -n option? With cyradm or cyrreconstruct?<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Any solution in my case?<br><br></div><div>Thanks<br><br>Yannick<br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-23 14:00 GMT+02:00 Patrick Boutilier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca" target="_blank">boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca</a>></span>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 04/23/2014 08:45 AM, Y B wrote:<br>
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thanks for the answer.<br>
I certainly still have the metadata since I have not lost any file, I<br>
have just too many files (all the previously deleted emails, recovered<br>
from my rsync backup)<br>
I am not exactly sure where the metadata are situated, /var/imap does<br>
not exist. In my case, all email files are situated at<br>
/data/mail/imap/spool/*/user/<u></u>username (the star being any letter of the<br>
alphabet).<br>
For a given username, I have for example the following files:<br>
<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21183 Apr 23 11:01 4846.<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 26585 Apr 23 10:49 4845.<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 15720 Apr 23 10:39 4844.<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4496548 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.cache<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 251 Mar 10 16:52 cyrus.header<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 151816 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.index<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10087920 Jan 22 02:28 cyrus.squat<br>
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 23 13:11 Sent<br>
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 23 09:38 Drafts<br>
drwx------ 4 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 22 20:45 Trash<br>
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 22 20:30 spam<br>
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Are the metadata in the cyrus.* files?<br>
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If yes, is there an easy way to delete the old emails using these metadata?<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Yannick<br>
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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.<br>
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For example I added some bogus files called 1. , 101. , and 255. to my mailbox.<br>
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reconstruct -n user.boutilpj<br>
user.boutilpj uid 1 rediscovered - appending<br>
user.boutilpj uid 101 rediscovered - appending<br>
user.boutilpj uid 255 rediscovered - appending<br>
user.boutilpj<br>
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2014-04-22 15:06 GMT+02:00 Patrick Boutilier <<a href="mailto:boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca" target="_blank">boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca</a><br></div>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca" target="_blank">boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca</a>>><u></u>:<div><br>
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On 04/22/2014 09:19 AM, Y B wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
after a disk crash, I had to recover all the emails from a daily<br>
backup.<br>
Unfortunately, I noticed that this backup was made with the rsync<br>
command but WITHOUT the --delete options.<br>
That means that the mail backup was much larger than the<br>
original one<br>
since no message was ever deleted on the backup.<br>
Now I would like to clean the mailboxes and remove all those<br>
emails that<br>
were previously deleted but I cannot find how.<br>
Is there any easy way to do this?<br>
(I use cyrus+postfix on debian 6.0.4)<br>
<br>
Thank you for your help.<br>
<br>
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Did you lose your metadata as well? Usually in /var/imap ?<br>
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Yannick<br>
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