Recovering crashed cyrus server mailbox

[Robert Noll]

Diego V wrote:
>  
> As I can see I, having exactly the same problem as Robert. Here some 
> more info on what I did.
> Please, I really need some help.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch 
> <mailto:simon.matter at invoca.ch>> wrote:
>
>     > Hi everyone,
>     >
>     > Im having a really bad time restoring  my imap server.
>     >
>     > My cyrus server discs died and I was just able to recover some
>     of the
>     > data.
>     > I have almost everything from /var/spool/imap but none from
>     /var/lib/imap
>     >
>     > Thus I copy just one user's mailbox for testing. I created that
>     user again
>     > with cyradm, then copied all messages to its
>     > /var/spool/imap/f/user/foouser
>     > folder. Run reconstruct for that mailbox.
>     > So far so good. Now, when trying to check mails both from
>     outlook and
>     > thunderbird I cant see any messages.
>     >
>     > Boht partiotions have permissions set. chown -R cyrus.mail .
>     chmod -R 750
>     >
>     > Apparently, clients are looking where they should. I get these
>     lines on
>     > maillog when I ty to browse a folder:
>     > open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder
>     >  open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder2
>     >
>     > No messages are shown though but all files are on those mail
>     folders. Ive
>     > run every database or mailbox reconstruction utility with no
>     success.
>
>  
>  
>
>     Do you see the following files in /var/spool/imap/f/user/foouser
>     cyrus.cache
>     cyrus.header
>     cyrus.index
>
>  
> Yes, The cyrus files are there on each folder-
>  
>  
>
>     and in /var/lib/imap/user/f/
>     foouser.seen
>     foouser.sub
>
> Also there.
>  
>
>     And did you use the -f option with reconstruct?
>
>  
>  
> Yes, I did
>  
> Just used ctl_mboxlist -d to see if the user's mailboxes were actually 
> in mailboxes.db and yes they are.
> Dont have a clue about what to do now.
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Hi

activating "subscription" for the folders in the email-client made it 
work for me.
but it has to be done clientside, and for every email client if 
different ones are used, also for webmail.

regards,
Robert Noll