unable to delete corrupted mail box on cyrus v2.3.16

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Sophie Loewenthal via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:

> Hi!
>
> I have a broken mailbox that I would like to delete.
>
> This is Cyrus v2.3.16 on CentOS 6.
>
>  I tried reconstructing the mailbox from scratch ( Because I suspect  
> this was manually deleted from disc ).
>
>
> mkdir imap-store/spool/imap/domain/example.com/user/kat^long
> cd imap-store/spool/imap/domain/example.com/user/kat^long
> chmod 755 .
> chown cyrus:mail .
> touch cyrus.header
> chown cyrus:mail cyrus.header
>
> log into cyradm:
> localhost> lam user/kat.long
> kat.long at example.com lrswipkxtecda
> localhost> reconstruct -r user/kae.long
> reconstruct: Mailbox has an invalid format
> localhost> dm user/kat.long
> deletemailbox: Permission denied

you must give your admin account the permission to delete the mailbox

localhost> sam user/kat.long cyrus all
localhost> dm user/kat.long


>
> Names and domain names replaced with false entries.
>
> How could I remove this?
>
> Kind regards,
> Sophie.
>
>
>
>
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