Upgrade/reconstruct failures [REPOST]

[Ken Murchison]

Rob Tanner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am moving from an old style ESYS (based on a 1.x version of CMU) to 
> the latest and greatest Cyrus 2.2.3 on a new box with a single 140GB 
> mirrored partition to hold all the mail spools.  On the system I'm 
> upgrading from, we had multiple partitions.  Since I am merging the mail 
> into a single partition, I wrote a quick and dirty perl script to 
> replace the various partition declarations in the mailboxes file with 
> the dingle partition, "default".  I took that output and fed it into 
> ctl_mboxlist -u to create the new mailboxes database.
> 
> However, when I attempt to do a reconstruct -r on a hierarchy of user 
> mailboxes, about half the mailboxes fail with the message: "Mailbox has 
> an invalid format". I can create a new mailbox and then from a unix 
> shell, move all the files into the new box and do a reconstruct on that, 
> and it works fine.  Next I did a ctl_mboxlist -d and compared the entry 
> for a mailbox that failed to reconstruct with one that succeeded, and 
> everything looks the way I expect it to.
> 
> Any ideas as to what might be wrong will be most appreciated.

My guess is that the index/cache upgrade code doesn't like the old 
files.  You could try removing the cyrus.* files in one of these 
mailboxes and then run reconstruct.  The only downside to this is that 
you will lose any flags (other than \Seen) that were set on the message.


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