need help recovering from disk crash

[David Lang]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Rudy Gevaert wrote:

> David Lang wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, David Lang wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Scott M. Likens wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> If you have a dump of the mailbox's (ctl_mboxlist) then you can restore
>>>> those, personally I back those up weekly as well as /var/spool/imap
>>> I don't think I have that.
>>> 
>>>> If you don't, re-add the users, then do reconstruct -r -f user.username
>>>> (obviously replace username with the username in question) and it will
>>>> reconstruct the mailbox and find all the folders for you and add them to
>>>> the mailboxes db.
>>>> 
>>>> Then do that on all your users, and you should be good.
>>> Ok, that's not bad.
>> 
>> I'm running into a problem with this, I can do this for one domain, but not 
>> for a second.
>
> I don't know if 2.2 supports virtual domains.  You'd better check that.  I 
> think there is a bug in reconstruct with virtual domains.  I have to run:
>
> reconstruct -r -f user/login at domain
> and
> reconstruct -r -f user/login/*@domain
>
> (I'm also using unix hierarchy seperator, but you aren't I think.)

I tracked this down last night. Since I was also fighting SASL (my old SASL had 
been connected to a postgres database, the new one wasn't compiled to support 
that, so I was having to learn a different way to set passwords) I had gotten 
dlang at lang.hm to work and be able to login, and apparently if you login with one 
virtual domain you can't do anything to any other virtual domain, even if you 
are listed as the admin user. I setup a password for the user cyrus and set it 
to be the admin user and was able to work with all the different domains.

I did run into one other bug that I couldn't figure out. no user was able to 
modify their INBOX (delete items, etc). I could copy messages to folders, but 
not delete anything.

to get back online (and since this is just my home machine) I ended up setting 
anyone all acl's on every inbox.

it sounds like I really need to upgrade to 2.3.x, I downloaded it, but haven't 
compiled it yet.

David Lang