Expire appointments in imap based calender folder

[Geert Janssens]

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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