Cannot rebuild or delete mailbox - physical file deleted

[Hamish]

Hello all
I have stupidly deleted a users directory while setting up cyrus. It now 
works but the user is a ghost which I cannot get rid of:
dm user/fred at mydomain.com
deletemailbox: Permission denied

sam user/fred at mydomain.com manager d
setaclmailbox: manager: d: System I/O error

reconstruct user/fred at mydomain.com
reconstruct: Operating System Error

I tried to make a new directory for the ghost user, but of course this 
also did not work.

I saw in the archives that someone had used a "Brute force and 
ignorance" approach - i think this is what I am left with.

http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg11301.html

The server has mailboxes set up, but there are only two people using it 
at the moment (testing, it goes live 24th) - what are the risks of doing 
the bfi approach here.

I can export the list with ctl_mboxlist -d and import with ctl_mboxlist 
-u < /path/to/file, but how do I kill the old db? and what else will I 
need to do to get it back to normal (It is part of a kolab2 install - 
auth from ldap)

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to get rid of this ghost, i 
would be very grateful!

Thanks,
H
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