restoring old mail messages

[Ken Murchison]

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
>>>
>>>--
>>>---------------------------------------------------
>>>|\/\/\___/\/\/| Carol Anne Corner &
>>>\____ o o ____/ Thomas Corner corner at chello.at
>>>     )   (     20-Mar-2003 21:19:39  Vienna,  Austria
>>>    ( * * )   mailer: xfmail
>>>     \___/ Web Page: www.corner.chello.at
>>>---------------------------------------------------
>>
> 



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