Deleting records from db

[Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski]

Thank you. I am in a similar situation like yours, because the server is 
still in test mode, so I can apply this solution. Thanks for help! :)

Have a nice day,

En3pY

Simon Brady wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I tried with this:
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>>localhost.localdomain> reconstruct user.mailboxname
>>reconstruct: Operating System Error
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>>The imapd.log file appended the following line:
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>>Feb 26 16:08:48 nexus imapd[30158]: Reconstructing 
>>'user.massimiliano_rovatti' (not recursive) for user 'postmaster'
>>
>>Sorry for boring... I would like to get out of this problem without 
>>deleting the entire database...
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>I encountered this exact situation (directories manually deleted, 
>leading to an unreconstructable mailbox) about a month ago. The solution 
>we chose was to export the mailboxes db (ctl_mboxlist -d), delete the 
>bogus entries from the textfile, then import it back in.
>
>However, this may not be the Right Way to fix it. In our case the server 
>was down anyway (the damaged mailbox had killed an overnight quota check 
>and corrupted the quota db), so this "brute force and ignorance" approach 
>made sense at the time.
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>--
>Simon Brady                             mailto:simon.brady at otago.ac.nz
>ITS Technical Services
>University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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