Cyrus Reconstruct Problems

[Patrick Radtke]

I don't see a -i  as a valid argument in the reconstruct src. Maybe  
its from an older version.

What upgrade did you perform? To 10.4 I assume.


I think you need to run reconstruct with -rfx  
user.username.foldername (wherever the missing mail is located) to  
rebuild the index.
You might want to back up all the cyrus.* files before doing this,  
since you've had unpredictable results.

Some mail clients (I think Apple Mail and outlook) can get confused  
about the date for the missing messages after a reconstruct.


Can your user's IMAP client access the inbox? or is that still a  
problem?



-Patrick

On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Jed Davidow wrote:

> I have been having some serious cyrus problems all week. I do not  
> understand why they are occurring, and I hope that someone here can  
> help me out.
>
> We are runnng Mac OS Server 10.3.9
>
> After an upgrade, I have one user (out of 10) whose inbox was  
> truncated from 3000 messages to 6.
>
> I checked, and the messages are still in /var/spool/imap/user/USER.
>
> I stopped the mail server and ran (as cyrus)
>  /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -f -r user/USER
>
> What did this do? It makes the user's inbox dissapear. It shows up  
> in cyradmin, shows up in a client subscribe list, but the IMAP  
> client cannot access it, and I get this error when mail is  
> delivered to it:
>
> Aug 18 14:28:42 localhost postfix/pipe[1876]: 76E1E3656F6: to=,  
> orig_to=, relay=procmail, delay=23, status=deferred (temporary  
> failure)
>
> Note:  This is the THIRD time this particular thing has happened to  
> this user's inbox.  I also managed to nuke on of his subfolders in  
> the same manner.
>
> I also tried to run
>   /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -x user/USER
> but this did not help.
>
> To fix this, I have had to rebuild the ENTIRE cyrus db. And when I  
> do, the reconstruct tool seems to miss some of the mail in this  
> user's folders.  (reconstruct -i).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Any at all? Apple TS is zero help.
>
> Some other questions:
>    what is the reconstruct -i switch for?  It seems to help rebuild  
> the DB, but I cannto find any documentaion on it (I got it from  
> another user who suggested to use that to rebuild).
>
> I am really just trying to understand why all this is happening.   
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jed
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