Urgent help needed - ctl_cyrusdb[3698]: DBERROR db3: /var/imap/mailboxes.db: unexpected file type or format

[Ken Murchison]

Oliver Simon wrote:

> Help please !!!
> 
> Looks like a big big problem ....
> 
> Something has corrupted my mailbox.db, and I think, I have to bite my
> ars%$. There is no backup ... About 50 users, Between 20 k and 30 MB
> mailboxes ... Please help, what can I do to recover this ?
> Working with web-cyradm, Postfix 2.1.15 and cyrus 2.15 (?)
> 
> ctl_cyrusdb[3698]: DBERROR db3: /var/imap/mailboxes.db: unexpected file
> type or format

You can try db_recover.  If that fails, read the BDB docs and utilizing 
the backups in /var/imap/db.backup1/ and /var/imap/db.backup2/

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