reconstruct doing nothing

[Tom Bryntesen]

Hi,

What's the conclusion on this problem? Anyone? I'm also struggling trying to 
recreate a users e-mails...
Running: Cyrus v2.2.12-Debian-2.2.12-4ubuntu1 with LMTPA on a 
Ubuntu-system...
[kernel 2.6.15-27-server]...

- bryntez -


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bron Gondwana" <brong at fastmail.fm>
To: "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com>; "Rudy Gevaert" 
<Rudy.Gevaert at ugent.be>
Cc: "Bart Coninckx" <info at bitsandtricks.com>; "Info Cyrus" 
<info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: reconstruct doing nothing


>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:29:36 +0100, "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> 
> said:
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Rudy Gevaert <Rudy.Gevaert at ugent.be>
>> wrote:
>> > Gabor Gombas wrote:
>> >  > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>> >  >
>> >  >> Gabor, is this patch relevant when I do get a result onscreen from
>> >  >> "reconstruct"?
>> >  >
>> >  > Without the patch, "reconstruct -r" processes only the exact mailbox
>> >  > given on the command line but does not descend into subfolders, like
>> >  > when the "-r" switch was not given at all. At least that's the case 
>> > with
>> >  > my configuration.
>> >
>> >  Some time ago I noticed the same, but some time after that it did
>> >  recurse.  Anyway, doing reconstruct -rfx 
>> > user/first.lastname/*@domain.com
>> >  reconstructs the sub folders too.
>> >
>>
>> I thing '*' and '%' are used as wildcard in the list of know
>> mailboxes, I means the mailbox.db
>>
>> Then
>>
>> reconstruct user/first.lastname/*@domain.com  #withount -r
>>
>> display all known sub folder of mailbox first.last at domain.com except
>> Inbox itself !!!!
>>
>> Then to repair an inbox and all its folders 2 commands are required !
>>
>> reconstruct user/first.lastname at domain.com
>> reconstruct user/first.lastname/*@domain.com
>>
>> I suppose
>>
>> reconstruct -r user/first.lastname at domain.com  #withount * but with -r
>>
>> SOULD do the same. But is not working for me. The -f doest help more if
>> the mailbox is already knwon !
>>
>> If I copy my Sent folder into a new Foo folder then run (create a new
>> mailbox without
>> telling to cyrus), then use
>>
>> reconstruct -f user/first.lastname at domain.com  # without a -r but
>> (work same with -r )
>>
>> It display
>>
>> discovered domain.com!first.last.Foo
>>
>>
>> Conclusion
>> ========
>>
>> - -r looks to be useless
>> - -f discover yet unknow folder, recursively too, but only inside new
>> folder, not if already known, use * to for a full discovery in two
>> time user/first.lastname at domain.com and
>> user/first.lastname/*@domain.com
>> - '*' and '%' allow to walk around the mailbox tree, but only inside
>> already know folder
>>
>> This was tested on a 2.3.11
>
> Try this:
>
> reconstruct -r 'domain.com!user/first.lastname'
>
> (yay internal representations leaking)
> -- 
>  Bron Gondwana
>  brong at fastmail.fm
>
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