Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.

[anant at isac.gov.in]

----- Message from morgan at orst.edu ---------
     Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:41:10 -0800 (PST)
     From: Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>
  Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.
       To: anant at isac.gov.in
       Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu


> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, anant at isac.gov.in wrote:
>
>> ----- Message from morgan at orst.edu ---------
>>    Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:33:03 -0800 (PST)
>>    From: Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.
>>      To: anant at isac.gov.in
>>      Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, anant at isac.gov.in wrote:
>>>
>>>> ----- Message from morgan at orst.edu ---------
>>>>   Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:55:04 -0800 (PST)
>>>>   From: Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>
>>>> Subject: Re: Reconstruct mailbox for a specific user.
>>>>     To: anant at isac.gov.in
>>>>     Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, anant at isac.gov.in wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Create a cyrus.header file in the ABC directory, set the ownership
>>>>>>> and permissions.  Something like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> touch cyrus.header
>>>>>>> chown cyrus:mail cyrus.header
>>>>>>> chmod 600 cyrus.header
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then run:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> reconstruct -x -f user.xxx.ABC
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I should have asked at the beginning - are there any message files
>>>>>>> in (1., 2., 3., etc) in the ABC directory?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NO. There are no message files in ABC directory.  There are only
>>>>>> directories in ABC directory and each such directory has message
>>>>>> files and also cyrus.* files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am thinking of another option, move all such directories under
>>>>>> ABC to one level higher, that is at user.xxx level and run
>>>>>> reconstruct -r -f user.xxx.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But, you still suggest, which is the best way.
>>>>>
>>>>> What happens when you run:
>>>>>
>>>>> reconstruct -x -f user.xxx.ABC.def
>>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NO output.  lm does not list user.xxx.ABC or user.XXX.ABC.def.
>>>
>>> Hmmm.  Could this be a bug in reconstruct?  Maybe it won't
>>> reconstruct a mailbox is the parent is not also a mailbox...
>>>
>>> Why don't you try creating user.xxx.ABC in cyradm, then running the
>>> same reconstruct command?
>>>
>>> 	Andy
>>
>>
>> YES. This helped and all folders got recognised.  Thank you for  
>> your guidance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anant.
>
> I found an existing bug report that covers this:
>
>   https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2125
>
> I updated the bug report with an example of how to reproduce the  
> problem, which is still present in v2.4.17.  This bug was originally  
> created 2003-07-30.  :)
>
> 	Andy
>

Thank you for your inputs.

Regards,
Anant.

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