Manually deleting a mailbox
Andrew Morgan
morgan at orst.edu
Thu Mar 29 12:02:28 EST 2007
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, AndrXs Tarallo wrote:
> In a cyrus ima server I administer someone deleted manually a mailbox
> (rm -f /var/spool/imap/user/themailbox), traying to fix a problem.
>
> In the cyradm the mailbox still exists, and I can't delete it.
>
> Theres a method for deleting the mailbox manully? Any help will be
> appreciated.
Try this:
1. Create an empty cyrus.header file in the filesystem where the mailbox
should exist (touch /var/spool/imap/user/themailbox/cyrus.header).
2. Give it the correct ownership and permissions.
3. Run (as your cyrus user) "reconstruct -f -x user.themailbox".
This should give you an empty mailbox again. Then you can use cyradm to
delete the mailbox correctly.
Andy
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