Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct

[Blake Hudson]

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Subject: Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct
From: Derrick Seymour <seymourdh at yahoo.com>
To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:20:28 AM
> I have been having a few problems as of late.
>
> First, lost emails.  Well they aren't really lost, i
> have located them in the imap mail store under the
> users name, kind of hidden i guess you would say.  not
> sure why that is.
>
> This happens randomly with incoming emails, maybe one
> out of a couple thousand.
>
> My fix to this was to reconstruct the user box.
>   
...
> while this works, it seems to corrupt the inbox, only
> the inbox all other folders stay intack.
>   
...
> sudo -u cyrus /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -i
>
> and of course this fixes the problem of the mail box
> does not exist but i always seems to lose some emails
> in the process, usually one or two users at random
>
> You can probably see a very bad cycle here.
>   
...

Sounds like bad RAM maybe corrupting the cyrus databases... Any other 
indication of file corruption or system locking/freezing/rebooting 
(things associated with bad memory) ?

In a PC I'd run memtest86, dunno if that option is available to you.

-Blake