IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

[Simon Matter]

> Simon,
>
> 	I did recover /var/lib/imap (although a bit later, FWIW) and

I think "a bit later" is your problem. But I think reconstruct should fix
this.
BTW, did you check the subscription status of mailboxes? Maybe the folders
are there but not subscribed, and that's why some users can't see them?

> /etc/imapd.conf. I just now compared /etc/cyrus.conf and added squatter
> & adjusted prefork numbers -- the rest all matched.
>
> 	Is there other configuration I should check? Both systems are 64-bit
> CentOS 5, so the db4 installations should be fully compatible.

If both the old and the new system are basically the same I don't think
there is anything missing.

Simon

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> On 10/4/10 8:36 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> 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?
>