Recovering a mailbox

[Johan de Vries]

Oke, some progress is made

I stopped the Imap daemon
Then restored all files in the /var/spool/imap/user/aajv/DMPH  dir
Then start the daemon again
Now i can see all emails

But only the headers

When i want to see a email i get the notice: Message not available on the
server

Any suggestions ?


> 
> 
> HI !
> 
> I think, cyrus is holding a sort of caching-DB for
> the mails in the different folders.
> I think, this is the problem, the Caching-Entries
> in the DB are missing....but a recovery should re-create
> them...Hmm...Funny...not really :-)
> 
> Bye
>    Frank
> 
> 
> > No success so far
> >
> > I deleted the mailbox
> > Created a new using cyradm cm
> > Checked if it was there using cyradm lm
> > I tried a restore and then leaving the cyrus.* files 
> original, and one
> with
> > a overwrite of all files in the /var/spool/imap/user/aajv/DMPH dir
> > All files are set to cyrus/mail and then a reconstruct -rf user.aajv
> > In both situations the mailbox shows up on the client, but 
> it is empty
> > If i do a  du -ch /var/spool/imap/user/aajv   it says the 
> box is 5.9M
> >
> > Funny ?
> > Not really
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > Sounds kind of strange to me since if the user deleted the
> > > mailbox the
> > > entry should also be gone in the mailboxes.db ...
> > >
> > > I would try the following:
> > >
> > > use cyradm>
> > >
> > > lm user.aajv.DMPH to see if the mbox exists according to the
> > > mailboxes DB.
> > > If it doesn't you can so cm user.aajv.DMPH and assign the
> > > user necessary
> > > permissions on this mailbox.
> > > Than you can run the reconstruct and all mail should be 
> there , ...
> > >
> > > If the mailbox does already exist you can do a dm 
> user.aajv.DMPH and
> > > after that you can skip to step one to recreate the mailbox
> > > and run the
> > > reconstruct.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tijl
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Johan de Vries wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hi all
> > > >
> > > >I had a quick look though the archives, but couldn't find an
> > > answer for my
> > > >question
> > > >
> > > >One of my users deleted a folder with his mailclient
> > > (Outlook Express)
> > > >I restored this folder ( /var/spool/imap/user/aajv/DMPH)
> > > >All file permissions are set back to : owner=cyrus  group=mail
> > > >Then i used the command: reconstruct -rf user.aajv
> > > >
> > > >In Outlook express the folder didn't show on the list at first
> > > >After a "reset list" the folder came up
> > > >
> > > >At this moment the folder is on the list, but there are no
> > > emails according
> > > >to Outlook express
> > > >When i look at the folder on the server the mail is there
> > > >
> > > >Any suggestions how to show the emails again?
> > > >
> > > >Regards
> > > >Johan
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