Ongoing inaccessible mailbox woes

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015, at 01:14, Patrick Goetz via Info-cyrus wrote:
> Hi Bron -
> 
>    [root at www cyrus]# pwd
>    /etc/cyrus
>    [root at www cyrus]# grep improved_mboxlist_sort imapd.conf
>    improved_mboxlist_sort: yes
> 
> But in any case, it is seeing the mailbox.  The "Archives Staff" mailbox 
> shows up with messages and one sub-mailbox -- the other sub-folders are 
> all missing.
> 
> Question:  when I'm running reconstruct, what does it even mean to get 
> the message "Mailbox already exists"?  Of course the mailbox already 
> exists; else there would be no point in running reconstruct!
> 
> Next, when I look in
> 
>    /var/imap/user/d/djones/djones.sub
> 
> the folders I'm not seeing and which give the error messages are missing 
> from this list -- could this be the problem?  How can I force cyrus to 
> reconstruct this list, or is this one of the things that reconstruct does?

The subs file isn't significant at all.

create_namecheck returns MAILBOX_EXISTS, as does a rename to the same
name or on the same partition.  It's obviously create_namecheck that will be
triggering this.

I'd be very interested in seeing the exact files that are causing this.  Is it possible
for me to get a login to the system where this is running?  Happy to sign any
non-disclosure you need.

Bron.

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  Bron Gondwana
  brong at fastmail.fm