Moving a mailbox out of the spool, and resetting it?

[Michael Menge]

If you change something on the spool, without using the cyrus tools,  
you need to run reconstruct to update the cyrus.* files in that  
folder. After this you can update the quota with quota -f


Quoting George Cooke <geocoo at gmail.com>:

> Is it possible to archive a whole mailbox and then empty it (on a filesystem
> level), and get cyrus to realise the physical changes (ie recognise there is
> no mail in the mailbox, and reset the quota etc), I can't find a way of
> doing this, after moving mail from the mailbox and running quota -f, it
> doesn't realise there is no mail in the mailbox and still thinks there is
> 2GB of mail in there (hard limit quota).
>
> I guess this is where I need to know the architecture of cyrus's mailboxes.
>
> i don't mind using cyrus-admin or command line to do this, just would rather
> not use IMAP to do it.
>
> Any pointers to relevant docs would be great if you can't provide direct
> instructions.
>
> Thanks alot, hope to speak to some of you soon.
>



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