restoring old mail messages

[Patrick Boutilier]

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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