Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.

[anant at isac.gov.in]

----- Message from dwhite at olp.net ---------
     Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:21:03 -0600
     From: Dan White <dwhite at olp.net>
  Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.
       To: anant at isac.gov.in
       Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu


> On 12/10/12 16:42 +0530, anant at isac.gov.in wrote:
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> I did reconstruct mailboxes of all users, using the script in
>> README.HOWTO-recover-mailboxes.db.  Following is the extract of the
>> script (for reconstruct)
>>
>> --
>> find /var/spool/imap/user -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 | \
>> while read i; do
>>    i=$(basename $i)
>>    /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.${i}
>>    /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota -f user.${i}
>> done
>> --
>>
>> One of the users mailbox has one more level of sub folder like
>>
>> user.xxx.ABC
>> user.xxx.ABC.def
>>
>> Right now, folders of level user.xxx are seen, but folders at
>> user.xxx.ABC including ABC are not seen.
>>
>> Should I run,
>> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.xxx.ABC now? That is when
>> Cyrus-imapd is already running?  Or I should stop the service and run
>> reconstruct?  Please advise.
>
> You can run reconstruct and quota while cyrus-imapd is running.
>
> If reconstruct does not succeed, verify the mailbox(es) are listed within
> the output of 'ctl_mboxlist -d'. If not, you should add them via cyradm.
> reconstruct may also fail for a given mailbox if you are missing the
> cyrus.* files within its directory.
>
> You might wish to backup the contents of the directories in question before
> proceeding, in case you end up with missing flags or other data.
>
> -- 
> Dan White

What I found is

1. /var/spool/imap/user/xxx exists
2. /var/spool/imap/user has several directories
3. All other directories except ABC are listed as folders under  
user.xxx and are seen by IMAP clients.
4. ABC directory has subfolders like /var/spool/imap/user/xxx/ABC/1, 2  
3 etc and each of these subdirectories has cyrus.* files except ABC  
directory.  As you said, as ABC directory does not have cyrus.* files,  
reconstruct has failed to recognise it and hence its subdirectories.

Should I run reconstruct -r -f user.xxx.ABC or cm user.xxx.ABC and  
then run reconstruct -r -f user.xxx.ABC?

Sorry to bother you.  Thanks in advance.

Regards
Anant


>


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