manually force delete a mailbox

[Will Prater]

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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--will