breakage issues that I haven't figured out how to resolve

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:23 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:45 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> >> > Whiteboxlinux 3 (RHEL 3 clone) - Simon's rpm's
> >
> >> >
> >> > So my questions...
> >> >
> >> > 1. Do I have to rpmbuild --rebuild cyrus-imapd source rpm's against
> >> this
> >> > newer version of db4 for it to work? Seems that it shouldn't have
> >> broken
> >> > cyrus-imapd
> >>
> >> If the dp update is just a bug fix update, with same BDB version,
> >> everything should work without modifying cyrus-imapd at all. So what
> >> exactly went wrong?
> > ----
> > I cleared out the maillogs which grew massive very quickly but it was
> > something like Unable to operate in PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT - a bdb error.
> >
> > I would have thought that the 4.1.25-8 and the 4.1.25-8.1 wouldn't have
> > broken things but it did. I did compile it on the former. I would
> > presume that until I 'exclude' db4 from updating, a yum update command
> > would break it all over again.
> > ----
> >> I know that there is a problem in the rpm which affects poeople who
> >> change
> >> database configuration in /etc/imapd.conf and the rpm should convert
> >> databases on the fly but doesn't always do it correctly. The next
> >> release
> >> will fix to bugs. However, I don't think that's what you did, right?
> > ----
> > no - kept imap.conf throughout. I have a fairly well defined imap.conf
> > now
> 
> What do you mean with "fairly well defined imap.conf" ?
> The cyrus-imapd rpms out of the box use skiplist for mbox, seen and
> annotation, and flat for subs, and berkeley for duplicate and tls. Did you
> change this? How do the following files look:
> /usr/share/cyrus-imapd/rpm/db.cfg
> /var/lib/imap/rpm/db.cfg.cache
> /etc/imapd.conf
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> 
> Simon
> 
> > ----
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 2. I ended up having to 'cm' createmailbox for the users (mainly me)
> >> and
> >> > did 'reconstruct -rf user.craig' which got back all but nested
> >> > subfolders. Meaning...
> >> > /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/SPAMBOX #is fine
> >> > /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/Saved/Shell Scripts #didn't get added to
> >> > mailboxlist. Nothing in the 'Saved' subdirectory or 'logs'
> >> subdirectory
> >> > was re-constructed. What's the trick?
> >>
> >> Are you sure your databases are working correct? Maybe you want to look
> >> at
> >> the logs first. Healing a broken BDB environment has been discussed on
> >> this list recently and I'm no expert in BDB.
> > ----
> > the only error my standard /var/log/maillog reports is user.root not
> > having a default sieve script - hardly something that concerns me. I can
> > run.
> >
> > su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.craig' until
> > doomsday and it will not pick up the 'mail folders'
> > in /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/logs - I can't figure this out and none
> > of the documentation suggests otherwise.
> > ----
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 3. I lost all subscriptions (but the seen list was ok) and when I
> >> choose
> >> > to 'subscribe' to folders from my mail client, I am told that the IMAP
> >> > server doesn't support subscriptions... How to fix this?
> >>
> >> I have no idea. BTW, if you're also using skiplist, make sure none of
> >> the
> >> files is corrupt.
> > ----
> > I deleted /var/lib/imap/user/c/craig.sub but still the same problem. I
> > am told that on my account, the system doesn't support subscriptions. I
> > can't figure out what else to try.
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# cat /usr/share/cyrus-imapd/rpm/db.cfg
CONFIG_DB_DUPLICATE=berkeley
CONFIG_DB_MBOX=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SEEN=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SUBS=flat
CONFIG_DB_TLS=berkeley
CONFIG_DB_ANNOTATION=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SIEVE=2.2.3

# cat /var/lib/imap/rpm/db.cfg.cache
CONFIG_DB_DUPLICATE=berkeley
CONFIG_DB_MBOX=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SEEN=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SUBS=flat
CONFIG_DB_TLS=berkeley
CONFIG_DB_ANNOTATION=skiplist
CONFIG_DB_SIEVE=2.2.3

# cat /etc/imapd.conf
configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins: cyrus
sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
hashimapspool: true
lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1

createonpost: 1
autocreateinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted Items
autosubscribeinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted
Items
autosubscribesharedfolders: public
autocreatequota: 512000
autocreate_sieve_script: /etc/default_sieve_script
autocreate_sieve_compiledscript: /etc/default_sieve_script.bc
generate_compiled_sieve_script: 1
allowallsubscribe: 1
anysievefolder: 1

maxmessagesize: 0
quota_warn: 90

sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN

tls_cert_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus-global.pem
tls_key_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus-global.pem
tls_ca_file: /etc/ssl/ca.cert

ldap_base: dc=azapple,dc=com
ldap_filter: (uid=%u)
ldap_group_base: ou=Groups,dc=azapple,dc=com
ldap_group_scope: one


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