quota corruption

[Alain Spineux]

On Dec 27, 2007 7:51 PM, Erol YILDIZ <erol.yildiz at hevokullari.k12.tr> wrote:
> I get the error below. a_akpinar is an old user which I have deleted but
> seems like its not been deleted from somewhere. How can I solve this?
>
> Dec 27 19:33:30 sles quota[14313]: IOERROR: opening
> /var/spool/imap/user/a_akpinar/cyrus.header: No such file or directory

You can use "reconstruct" to rebuild these files.
Then you can use the cyradm to delete the mailbox.

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Boutilier" <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>
> To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: quota corruption
>
>
> > Erol YILDIZ wrote:
> >> I found it now. Its under /usr/lib/cyrus/bin but when I send quota -f
> >> command it gives 'quota: System I/O error No such file or directory'. Do
> >> you
> >> know why does it give this error?
> >
> > Check your log files (usually /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog) .
> > There should be some indication as to what file/directory it can not find.
> >
> > Otherwise you could strace the quota process.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
> >> To: "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "Erol YILDIZ" <erol.yildiz at hevokullari.k12.tr>;
> >> <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:53 PM
> >> Subject: Re: quota corruption
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Dec 27, 2007 2:44 PM, Erol YILDIZ <erol.yildiz at hevokullari.k12.tr>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am using Suse linux enterprise server 9 with cyrus and for a few
> >>>>> days
> >>>>> having some problems. For example when a user tries to purge deleted
> >>>>> mails,
> >>>>> outlook says 'The folder Inbox cannot be selected. This may be because
> >>>>> of a
> >>>>> limitation of your IMAP server or the folder may have been deleted or
> >>>>> moved.' and we have different similar connection problems and
> >>>>> syronization
> >>>>> problems. When I disable quota for the users, the problem ends. I read
> >>>>> about
> >>>>> corrupted quota files and that I can fix this by using 'quota -f'
> >>>>> command
> >>>>> but on SLES9 quota command doesnt have -f parameter.
> >>>> Are you speaking about the linux "quota" command or
> >>>> the cyrus one "cyrquota" ?
> >>> Alain, there is space for confusion here because there is no "cyrquota"
> >>> in
> >>> the cyrus distribution, only Debian (any maybe others) rename it so.
> >>> However, I don't know how SuSE does it.
> >>>
> >>> Simon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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