Can't see messages, reconstruct doesn't work

[David Mayo]

Eric,

On 19/04/11 11:01, Eric Knudstrup wrote:

> On 04/19/2011 02:43 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>> On 04/19/2011 06:34 AM, Eric Knudstrup wrote:
>>> I have a problem in which there are messages in my main INBOX directory,
>>> but they aren't seen in my IMAP client.
>>> Unfortunately, when I tell it to reconstruct through cyradm, I see a
>>> pair of .NEW files created, but they're empty and the reconstruct returns?
>>> This is with 2.4.7.
>> Are the .NEW files still there after reconstruct ends? If so it sounds
>> like reconstruct is crashing. Anything in your logs files?
> Nothing.  I just tried deleting the cyrus.* files and that works.  I was
> replicating this installation to another (new) 2.4.7 installation,
> starting about a week ago.

Are the messages marked as deleted? Try checking with "unexpunge -l 
<mailbox>" - if you deleted cyrus.expunge and reconstructed, the 
messages would reappear in the mailbox.

Regards,


Dave.

David Mayo
Networks/Systems Administrator
University of Bath Computing Services, UK