Mailboxes which won't come back online

[Roland Pope]

Yeah, this is a problem with reconstruct not recursivly descending into
directories which are only folders, not mailboxes. You will need to create
the folder as a mailbox using cyradm, then run reconstruct again. Has this
been or does this need to be bugzilla-ed?

Roland
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Goetz" <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: Mailboxes which won't come back online


>
> This using Cyrus 2.1.15 ...
>
>
> Last week I pestered this list about a situation wherein the contents of
> /var/lib/cyrus (i.e. the database) were lost in a system crash while the
> contents of /var/spool/cyrus/mail (i.e. the actual messages) were
> preserved.  After using
>
>   cyradm -> cm
>
> to recreate the user.username mailboxes and running
>
>   cyrreconstruct -r user.username
>
> for each account, the system is mostly back in working order with one
> exception.  One of the users has a mail folder which contains no messages
> but only other folders.  Try as I might, I simply can't get cyrus to
> acknowledge the existence of this folder or any of it's sub-folders; i.e.
> when I run
>
>      cyrreconstruct -r user.this_user_name
>
> it picks up everthing in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/muser
> EXCEPT for the this particular directory.  Consequently the folders don't
> show up in any IMAP MUA, either, and hence can't be used.
>
> Running `cyrreconstruct -f user.this_user_name` first doesn't do anything,
> either.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this might be and/or how I can get these
> folders back into the cyrus database?  The permission on all files are the
> same, so it can't be a permissions problem.  Since this directory doesn't
> contain any actual messages, the files
>
>   cyrus.cache  cyrus.header cyrus.index  cyrus.seen
>
> don't exist, but they are in the subdirectories which contain actual
> messages.
>
> Of course this user has 25 or so filters set up which automatically filter
> messages to mail folders in this directory, so having this stuff not
> available through the cyrus server is a major pain in the a**.
>
> In general, it's rather disturbing to be in a situation where physical
> messages actually exist in the cyrus mail heirarchy, but the cyrus server
> refuses to see them.
>
>
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