manually force delete a mailbox

[Will Prater]

Moving it out of the way did the trick.. thanks..


On Dec 3, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Robert Scussel wrote:

> My experiences also shw that unless you move the mailboxes.db file out 
> of the way, it doesn't import the new content correctly.
>
> HTH,
> B
>
> Will Prater wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2003, at 5:43 AM, Robert Scussel wrote:
>>> is spool/user/graeme.mercurycload.net present ( 
>>> graeme^mercurycloud^net -- not sure on the way it is on disk )?
>> No.
>>> Of course there is always the method of dump mailboxes.db file, 
>>> edit, reimport, but that won't necessarily solve the underlying 
>>> cause of your problem, just give you a quick fix to get rid of the 
>>> mailbox.
>> I have done this.. edited out the line:
>> user.graeme^mercurycloud^net    default graeme.mercurycloud.net 
>> lrswipcda       cyrus   lrswipcda
>> Imported the file back in, checked with cyradm and the account is 
>> still there.
>> Anything I could have done wrong. Here was my procedure:
>> ----
>>  > su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d -f 
>> /var/imap/mailboxes.db' > /var/imap/mailboxes.bak
>> .. edit the file and remove the bad mailbox line
>>  > su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u < 
>> /var/imap/mailboxes.bak'
>> ----
>> Thanks
>>> HTH,
>>> B
>>>
>>> Will Prater wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:37 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Will Prater wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> List,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a stuck mailbox. I have tried every method to delete it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is an example of output from cyradm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> localhost.mercurycloud.net> dm user/graeme.mercurycloud.net
>>>>>> deletemailbox: System I/O error
>>>>>> localhost.mercurycloud.net> cm user/graeme.mercurycloud.net
>>>>>> createmailbox: Mailbox already exists
>>>>>> localhost.mercurycloud.net>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think I need to edit the db3 databse? Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried running reconstruct on the mailbox first?  I'd try 
>>>>> to make
>>>>> the mailbox work correctly, then try to delete it.
>>>>
>>>> Same results
>>>> ----
>>>>  > su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -f 
>>>> user/graeme.mercurycloud.net'
>>>> user.graeme^mercurycloud^net: System I/O error No such file or 
>>>> directory
>>>> ----
>>>> Any more ideas on this one?
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Robert Scussel
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>>>
>> --will
>
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> Robert Scussel
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--will