-ERR [SYS/PERM] unable to open maildrop

[Morten Trab]

I am the Cyrus user, and it doesn't display anything...

Isn't there ANY way to reconstruct this file??

Best regards,
    Morten Trab, Denmark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
To: "Morten Trab" <trab at privat.dk>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: -ERR [SYS/PERM] unable to open maildrop


> Morten Trab wrote:
>
> > I get NO output whatsoever when executing ctl_mbox -d
>
> Make sure you become the cyrus user before executing this.  If
> ctl_mboxlist -d doesn't list anything, you have big problems (your
> mailboxes.db is most likely shot).
>
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> >    Morten Trab, Denmark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
> > To: "Morten Trab" <trab at privat.dk>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: -ERR [SYS/PERM] unable to open maildrop
> >
> >
> >
> >>Morten Trab wrote:
> >>
> >>>The mailboxes.db looks pretty binary, but it exists on the fs...
> >>
> >>Do a ctl_mboxlist -d and see if user.morten^trab^.dk exists.
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've tried with the reconstruct -r user/morten.trab.dk
> >>>No luck (got lots of users, so that solution would take PLENTY time)
> >>
> >>I assume you're using Cyrus v2.1 with unixhierarchysep enabled?
> >>
> >>
> >>>I don't got either one of the logs you refer to...
> >>>/var/log/messages doesn't say any error, the error is from my mail
> >
> > client...
> >
> >>Don't you have local6 (Cyrus) and auth (SASL) entries in syslog.conf?
> >>If so, you should add them, since there are valuable for debugging.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Btw. just found out that my Cyrus is 5+ minutes when starting...That
> >
> > isn't
> >
> >>>normal, is it??
> >>
> >>Only if you have a large databases and aren't checkpointing frequently.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Best regards,
> >>>  Morten Trab, Denmark
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
> >>>To: "Morten Trab" <trab at privat.dk>
> >>>Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> >>>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:00 PM
> >>>Subject: Re: -ERR [SYS/PERM] unable to open maildrop
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Morten Trab wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>This is all I get when I try to connect to my Cyrus POP3..
> >>>>>
> >>>>>It all appeared after I had a mailbox.db error, which I apparently
got
> >>>>>cuered by running ctl_cyrusdb (I think), but now it keeps rejecting
the
> >>>>>passwords for every account on the system...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>What've gone wrong, and how do I solve the problem??
> >>>>
> >>>>What errors are you seeing in imapd.log and/or auth.log?
> >>>>
> >>>>Does the mailbox exist in both mailboxes.db and the filesystem?
> >>>>
> >>>>Have you tried reconstructing the mailbox?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> >>>>Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> >>>>716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
> >>>>--PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> >>Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> >>716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
> >>--PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> 716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
> --PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
>