reset cyrus mailbox.db

[Sascha Wuestemann]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:44:07AM +0200 or thereabouts, Simon Matter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to erase all information for mailboxes to have a fresh start.
> >
> > I am running cyrus version 2.1.16 at a debian testing server.
> >
> > I have had copied hundreds of user mailboxes and shared folders partly
> > by mistake to the wrong sytstem path and have built the mailboxes.db
> > by a script running reconstrut for all folders and all user mailboxes
> > which led to a mailbox.db which has information about mailboxes which
> > are not used. FYI: I have had a mistake at my rsync script because of
> > whitespaces, so subfolders were not sent to the right place but spread
> > over to incorrect folders.
> >
> > When detecting the malplaced folders, I decided to correct my rsync
> > script and run it after having erased all folders and user mailboxes.
> > Now I have the correct system path structure, that is ok so far.
> >
> > How do I rebuild the cyrus mailboxes internal information from scratch
> > getting cyrus forget about nonexistent mailboxes?
> >
> > The argument -m is unfortunately not supported at this version of cyrus.
> >
> > Can I "echo > mailboxes.db" and run a reconstruct again and everything
> > is fine?
> 
> I think you have to create a mailbox list with a suitable script. Then you
> can remove the mailboxes.db and import the mailbox list into a new
> mailboxes.db.

Hi Simon and others,

the script is already done and waiting to be run :)

I am just unsure if this single action does the trick and no harm.

What are the other db files at /var/lib/cyrus/db for? Are they affected
by this action?

cu
Sascha

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