ctl_mboxlist dump/removal

Wesley Craig wes at umich.edu
Fri Nov 8 11:15:44 EST 2013


On 08 Nov 2013, at 11:10, Simon Beale <simon at minos.org.uk> wrote:
> For anyone following afterwards, one gotcha I feel worth pointing out is
> that if you have a line in your cyrus.conf START section of:
> mupdatepush   cmd="ctl_mboxlist -m"
> ... make sure you change that temporarily on the replica to:
> mupdatepush   cmd="ctl_mboxlist -m -a"
> ... before you start cyrus, else you will likely immediately delete all
> the mailboxes on the replica.

Personally, I never run that mupdatepush from cyrus.conf.  Instead, my startup script runs ctl_mboxlist -wim and analyze the output.  If there's *any* the startup fails and the admin has to check it out.

:wes


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