System I/O error

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Marcelino Vallejo wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> I know that questions like this might be asked thousands of times but I
> am stuck.
> I have deleted a user mailbox that had troubles, and I can´t eliminate
> this from the database:

Don't do that.

> user.username.INBOX^Sent: System I/O error No such file or directory
> user.username.INBOX^Trash: System I/O error No such file or directory
> user.username.Trash.INBOX^Drafts: System I/O error No such file or directory
>
> I also have tried with reconstruct, even when the user account was
> alive, and creating the mentioned directories.

You can stop the server, dump the mailbox list, remove the affected
entries, and undump the mailbox list.

You can also play games that try to "fake out" reconstruct, but that's
probably not a great idea.  Newer reconstructs do slightly better in this
situation (by which I mean 'current cvs').

-Rob

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