problem with cyr_expire

[Rudy Gevaert]

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:17:47 +0200, "Rudy Gevaert" <Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be> said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that I'm having a problem with cyr_expire.  I previously set 
>> an expire annotation on a mailbox.  (Some months ago.)
>>
>> I have now seen that cyr_expire goes upto that mailbox and then errors:
>>
>> Sep  2 04:40:07 himalaya mail1/cyr_expire[10145]: IOERROR: 
>> ugent.be!user.rudy^gevaert.Spam zero index/expunge record 8/1183861181
>>
>> Than it stops:
>>
>> Sep  2 04:40:07 himalaya mail1/cyr_expire[10145]: expunged 6592 out of 
>> 360264 messages from 70323 mailboxes
>> Sep  2 04:40:07 himalaya mail1/cyr_expire[10145]: duplicate_prune: 
>> pruning back 6 days
>> Sep  2 04:40:21 himalaya mail1/cyr_expire[10145]: duplicate_prune: 
>> purged 6307 out of 98826 entries
>>
>> I'm using 2.3.7.  I know of a the bug that cyr_expire stops when he 
>> reaches an error.  But I'm wondering that the error is.  How can I fix 
>> the mailbox?
>>
>> I looked trough the source and I think I found the relevant lines of 
>> code in mailbox.c:
>>
>>          /* Sanity check */
>>          if (*((bit32 *)(buf+OFFSET_UID)) == 0) {
>>              syslog(LOG_ERR, "IOERROR: %s zero index/expunge record
>>              %u/%lu",
>>                     mailbox->name, msgno, exists);
>>              return IMAP_IOERROR;
> 
> Ok - buf is a copy of a single index record.  OFFSET_UID is actually 0,
> since the UID is the first field in an index record.
> 
> It looks like you have a pretty corrupted index file, since:
> 1183861181 looks more like a timestamp than an "exists" count!
> 
> 
> I think you need to reconstruct the folder.

Thanks for the info, I did a reconstruct and now expire runs happily.

Rudy

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