deleting messages manually from the mailstore

[Andrew Morgan]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Joe Hrbek wrote:

> Hi,  I had a bit of a bad morning today.  Long story short, our virus
> scanner stopped working and about 150 virus emails were delivered to the
> cyrus mailstore.  This was scattered through about 50 mailboxes.  I quickly
> realized what was happening and fixed the scanner, but the problem of the
> infected, delivered emails still remained.
>
> Not wanting anyone to download these, I deleted them using a command line
> virus scanner :)  That worked well.  Cyrus is running fine, it still works,
> but I have some weird problems now.  I expected that this would be the
> consequence of my decision, but I did it nonetheless, choosing this as the
> lesser evil.  Anyway, in the mailboxes that had messages deleted, the users
> get a weird message listing.  If they use IMAP, a headerless email shows up,
> or nearly headerless.  It's empty except for the size and this size is
> whatever the attachment size was.  Now I can delete these just fine through
> IMAP (pop3 just complains it couldn't download x number of messages, but
> still gets the rest), but even with an empty mailbox, the quota is still
> used up a bit.  An empty mailbox used to show zero utilization, but on the
> affected mailboxes, even after removal of the messages through the virus
> scanner and the imap protocol, the utilization is 1% or 2%.
>
> I thought well, the indexes are messed up, so I did a reconstruct -r on a
> few of the mailboxes suffering with this problem, and still no dice.
>
> My question:  What would cause cyrus to report an invalid quota utilization?
> (on an empty mailbox).
>
> There must be something I have missed....

Did you run reconstruct and quota -f on the affected mailboxes?  Anytime
you mess with the files directly, you want to follow up with those two
program to fix the indexes and header files.

	Andy

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