manually force delete a mailbox

[Robert Scussel]

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
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert Scussel
>> 1024D/BAF70959/0036 B19E 86CE 181D 0912  5FCC 92D8 1EA1 BAF7 0959
>>
>>
>>
> --will
> 


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