Expire appointments in imap based calender folder

Geert Janssens geert at kobaltwit.be
Tue Oct 6 09:01:39 EDT 2015


Anyone can help me out on this or point me in the right direction ?

Thanks,

Geert

On Friday 25 September 2015 19:43:07 Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have cyrus-imap running on a centos 7 (64-bit) system in a xen
> guest.
> 
> As to completely breaks - I have limited my tests so far to the
> querying subcommands such as server, info and lm.
> 
> I'm connecting using
> # cyradm --user cyrus-admin localhost
> 
> which shows this prompt after successful password entry:
> localhost>
> 
> First command I try is 'lm':
> 
> localhost> lm
> 
> This successfully returns a long list of mailboxes on this server.
> Next I run the 'info' command:
> 
> localhost> info
> 
> This returns to the prompt without any other information printed. Now
> I run lm again:
> 
> localhost> lm
> 
> This command now also returns to the prompt without any other
> information printed. Yet its first incantation before the info command
> was run did return a long list of mailboxes.
> 
> I finish the sessions with 'quit', which still works fine.
> 
> So 'completely broken' is perhaps not the best way to call this. I
> can't sensibly use the info command however. It doesn't return any
> info and afterwards lm no longer works.
> 
> So what would be going on here ? Should I find log traces of this
> session somewhere I can consult ?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Geert Janssens
> 
> On Friday 25 September 2015 12:28:36 Patrick Goetz wrote:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > It might be helpful to explicate what "completely breaks" means.
> > Also, what platform are you running cyrus on?
> > 
> > On 09/25/2015 12:21 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm using cyrus-imap (cyrus-imapd-2.5) as part of the kolab
> > > groupware
> > > suite.
> > > 
> > > My users have a lot of old appointments imported from a previous
> > > groupware system. They would now like to remove all of them from
> > > before a given date, or older than X days.
> > > 
> > > I just found cyradm which looks like
> > > it can do this with its subcommand setinfo "expire".
> > > 
> > > Before doing so I wanted to check the existing metadata on the
> > > directories, so I could restore if needed.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately the info subcommand completely breaks in my version
> > > of
> > > cyradm. Before I use that subcommand the other subcommands work
> > > fine. If I use info once, lm doesn't work anymore (returns
> > > nothing).
> > > 
> > > So I'm a bit wary to use this tool.
> > > 
> > > Do others know why this goes wrong ?
> > > 
> > > If you need more information to determine this, please ask. I'm
> > > fairly new to this piece of software.
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > 
> > > Geert Janssens
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