Quota problems running 2.1.15

[Alec H. Peterson]

--On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:37 +1300 Simon Brady 
<simon.brady at otago.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> I've seen this happen after a mailbox was manually deleted from the spool
> directory. quota would run through the users in order until it hit the
> corrupt one then abort, leaving all the remaining quotas in limbo.
>
> Since reconstructing the mailbox didn't work, our "get things going before
> the users lynch us" fix was to export the mailboxes db with ctl_mboxlist
> -d, delete all references to the broken directory, rebuild with
> ctl_mboxlist -u then rerun quota -f.
>
> You should be able to identify the offending mailbox by observing where
> quota gets up to before dying.

Yup, that did the trick!

Though interestingly enough the -x option to ctl_mboxlist didn't work, such 
that I had to move the old database elsewhere before doing the import.

Alec


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