Urgent assistance required

[Timo Schoeler]

> This happened to me all the time with the default DB4 databases
> on our RHEL Linux server.
> 
> The paths below may be different on your OSX boxes, but to fix
> we would do:
> 
> service cyrus-imapd stop
> /bin/rm /var/lib/imap/db/log.*
> su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib64/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb -r"
> service cyrus-imapd start
> 
> 
> NOTE, depending on how you get mail injected into the Cyrus system,
> your incoming mail from during the outage may be sitting somewhere
> and need assistance.  For example, we run or incoming mail through
> procmail which calls 'deliver' to put mail into Cyrus, but if that
> fails, put the mail into normal UNIX flat space in /var/spool/mail.
> After a failure, I would have to manualy re-inject that mail
> from /var/spool/mail into Cyrus.
> 

usually Mac OS X 'Server' runs postfix; a simple 'postsuper -r ALL' for 
requeueing the emails is sufficient.

HTH,

timo

> 
> Eventually we seem to have gotten rid of the problem after we converted 
> the databases to 'skiplist' via putting these lines in /etc/imapd.conf:
> 
> duplicate_db: skiplist
> tlscache_db: skiplist
> 
> Then stop cyrus-imapd, delete /var/lib/imap/deliver.db and
> /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db, and then start cyrus-imapd up
> 
> 
>