IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

[Simon Matter]

> All,
>
>      I have run a small mail service based on Cyrus IMAP for a few
> years. The (CentOS 5) server I've used for the past couple years failed
> last week. I brought up a new CentOS 5 system on a new Linux server,
> installed cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3, mounted the old /var disk
> (actually one of 2 mdadm submirrors), and copied /var/spool/imap over to
> the new /var FS. It's running CentOS' cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3 RPM.

Did you also recover /var/lib/imap from the old server and make sure the
configs are the same?

Simon

>
>      Unfortunately, for many users (all but me?), mail clients (at least
> Apple's Mail.app and SquirrelMail) don't show any messages from before
> the migration in INBOX. When I grope around in /var/spool/imap/user, I
> see the old message (with high numbers) and the new messages (starting a
> new sequence from 1).
>
>      I know there are last-message counters in the cyrus.* files, so
> would resetting those have caused IMAP to start storing new messages
> from 1. and vanish the old ones? I don't know how those could have been
> cleared for at least 6 users simultaneously. Presumably it happened for
> all, and I just fixed it for myself somehow.
>
>      More importantly, I don't know how to make the old messages
> accessible to my users via IMAP (I can give them the files, but that's
> quite awkward). chk_cyrus agrees with IMAP clients about message counts
> (very low). I have tried reconstruct with various combinations of
> "-rfx", and "quota -f", but not found any way to make it show the old
> messages.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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