Cyrus 2.5.12 - 'reconstruct' - doesn't?

[Dave McMurtrie]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> I have a Cyrus 2.5.12 server running under FreeBSD. The other day I found 
> thousands of files in an old mailbox.
>
> The client can't see any of them - so I thought "Ok, I'll reconstruct the 
> mailbox"
>
> Reconstruct runs, and returns instantly - but the client still can't see the 
> files.

Are the files on disk owned by user 'cyrus' or are they owned by root?

> As a last ditch "fix it or kill it" - I removed the cyrus.header and 
> cyrus.index files from that folder.

reconstruct will create them if they don't exist.

> I expected reconstruct to rebuild them - based on the thousands of "xxxx." 
> files in that folder - but it didn't. It just returns instantly, and no 
> cyrus. files are created.

That is what you should expect.  reconstruct will tell you about each file 
it finds.

hth,

Dave