mailboxes.db: cyrusdb error

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Sat Mar 13 01:14:24 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 03:53, Florin Andrei wrote:

> To my utter dismay, none of the typical recovery procedures worked. I
> tried these things:
> 
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_mboxlist -d -f /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> 
> (said it cannot read mailboxes.db)
> 
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -m
> 
> (said it's not implemented! man, that was painful)

This sort of thing is why it's a good idea to make sure a plaintext copy
of your mailboxlist goes into your nightly backups. Just in case...

Craig Ringer

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