restoring old mail messages

[corner at chello.at]

/usr/cyrus/bin/reconstruct /var/spool/imap/user/corner/Pumpkin/
was one command I ran on a directory with the cyrus.* files deleted.  It seemed
to do nothing.  No cyrus.* files were generated.  I just tried two directories
experimentally to see if it would work.

Tom Corner

On 21-Mar-2003 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> What is the exact reconstruct command that you ran and did you run it as 
> the cyrus user?
> 
> 
> 
> corner at chello.at wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I removed the cyrus.* files from two directories and ran reconstruct on them
>> with no apparent results. The cyrus.* files were not rebuilt and the data is
>> still inaccessible.  It may be related to the fact that I had previously
>> inadvertently deleted the /var/imap/db and mailboxes files and had to
>> reinitialize the whole data structure from scratch.  I had saved the message
>> directories separately and had hoped I could reintroduce the old messages
>> and
>> run reconstruct to gain access to the previous data.  It doesn't work!
>> 
>> Thanks I am still hoping for a miracle, but am afraid the old data is never
>> to
>> be accessible again.
>> 
>> Tom Corner
>> 
>> On 21-Mar-2003 Ken Murchison wrote:
>> 
>>>corner at chello.at wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello and thanks,
>>>>
>>>>I have tried the reconstruct program.  The problem is the header files
>>>>cyrus.*
>>>>are corrupt.  There are many messages in the mailboxes, but they don't show
>>>>up
>>>>in a mail client.  Reconstruct takes no time to execute and acts as if it
>>>>is
>>>>doing nothing.
>>>
>>>Remove the cyrus.* files and run reconstruct.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Tom Corner
>>>>
>>>>On 21-Mar-2003 Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>corner at chello.at schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I got into problems updating to 2.1.12. In the process I "lost" the
>>>>>>maiailboxes
>>>>>>and the db files.  The system no longer recognizes the old messages.  I
>>>>>>saved a
>>>>>>copy of the old messages and they are still in the active imap INBOX
>>>>>>subfolders, but they can not be seen by user programs.  Is there any fix
>>>>>>or
>>>>>>work around for this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>>Search the cyrus-imapd docs. Keywords are 'reconstruct'...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thomas Corner
>>>>>>
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>> 
> 

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