Getting error "Mailbox has an invalid format"

[Rob Tanner]

Rob,

Kinda "yes" and kinda "no".  Since the transition is from an old ESYS 
commercial version, there are no cyrus.* files anyway -- they changed them to 
fdb.* and I have no idea whether the file has a similar format or not.  So 
the problem occur when no cyrus.* files.  I also added an empty cyrus.header 
file without success.  But when I straight over copied a cyrus.header file 
from a folder that would reconstruct properly, then the problem went away.

I should be able to bang out a quick perl program to creat cyrus.header files 
for every folder.  I went through a number of folders that have a valid 
format and looked at the cyrus.header files to get an idea of what I need to 
do, and I have a question about the layout.  The file begins with 3 bytes of 
binary data that appear to be a constant followed by several lines of ASCII 
text that appears also to be constant.  The next line, however, appears to be 
a string of 16 hex digits (printed in ASCII) and that is not constant.  How 
do I derive the value, or does it matter what I put in there?  The next line 
is blank, and the next line appears to be the ACLs from the mailboxes db.

Am I missing anything in that description, and what's the scoop on the 
variable 16 digit hex string?

Thanks,
Rob

--On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:17:31 PM -0400 Rob Siemborski 
<rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Rob Tanner wrote:
>
>> What exactly are the things that the software checks to decide that the
>> mailbox has an invalid format?  I've exhausted my ideas.
>
> You should be able to move the cyrus.* files out of the way and run
> reconstruct on the mailbox.  Those are the only things that affect
> "mailbox format"
>
> Of course, this threatens you to lose flags.
>
> -Rob
>
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Rob Tanner
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
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