Running reconstruct as cyrus user

[Ken Murchison]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 00:13, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
> 
>>My client is Ximian Evolution on SusE 9
> 
> 
> Evolution does cache heavily; I use it myself.
> 
> 
>> I'm in Mulberry now and both have
>>the same problem. They are listing the messages because the cyrus files 
>>still show entries for the messages. 
> 
> 
> Perhaps 'reconstruct' hasn't done its job for some reason. Were you
> definitely running it as user 'cyrus'?
> 
> 
>>The next step is to see if I'm really dealing with a corrupt 
>>mailbox, etc. I don't know the IMAP commands :(  so all I can do with 
>>imtest is test login, how do you list messages, for instance? The man page 
>>seems to only show startup options.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know much more about that than you. I've usually
> used imtest for login testing and to check what options the server
> advertises.
> 

I'm not an IMAP client expert, but here's what I use when I'm testing 
server changes by hand.  Note that the letters a-f used below are the 
tags for the command and can be any alphanum string

> If someone would be so kind as to jot down a quick "IMAP command
> summary" for:
> 	listing messages

Not sure what you mean by "listing", but you need to do:

a SELECT <mailbox>

to open a mailbox, which will tell you the number of messages in the 
EXISTS response.

> 	retrieving a message's headers

b FETCH <msgno> BODY[HEADER]

> 	retrieving a message

c FETCH <msgno> BODY[]

will give you the entire message

> 	deleting a message

d STORE <msgno> +FLAGS \DELETED

will set the \deleted flag

e EXPUNGE

will actually deleted the message(s)

> 	getting the auth advertising info (eg login options, etc)
> 		from the IMAP server

f CAPABILITY


> 
> I'd be happy to expand it and plonk it into the wiki. Alternately, if I
> ever get time I'll check out the IMAP RFC.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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