Corrupt inbox, related to size?

[Ken Murchison]

Kevin Baker wrote:
> I had to reconstruct my first cyrus user inbox today.
> 
> I have to say it makes me a bit nervous. We are running
> Postfix+Cyrus+LDAP with about 500 user, pretty good
> traffic, on 512Ram Raid1.
> 
> This particular user had about 1000 messages in her inbox.
> 
> It was fine after I ran reconstruct, but this is very
> inconvient as I need to take down cyrus during the
> process.

You don't need to take down Cyrus to reconstruct a mailbox.


> Does anyone have ideas as to what would cause this. Could

A Cyrus process crash while the mailbox was open.


> it be related to the number of messages in her inbox?

I doubt it.  The mailbox which archives this list at CMU has close to 
30K messages in it as we speak.

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