Mailbox inaccessible after setaclmailbox with invalid identifier

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmailteam.com
Mon May 28 17:55:07 EDT 2018


If you use cyr_dbtool you can edit the offending line in mailboxes db.

Clearly there's a bug here too, we should be sanitising group names! Or
at least storing them in a reversible format

On Tue, May 29, 2018, at 00:33, Sven Schwedas wrote:
> After running `setaclmailbox some/mailbox "group:name with
> spaces" all`,> all attempts to access the mailbox in any way either result in an
> "Invalid identifier" error message, or can't even find the mailbox.
> 
> deleteaclmailbox with exactly the same parameters as set doesn't help> (same "invalid identifier" error); cyrreconstruct doesn't even
> find the> mailbox. Deliveries are deferred as well.
> 
> Any ideas how I can recover the mailbox without rolling back the whole> server to an older backup?
> 
> (Cyrus 2.5.10 on Debian stretch, if that matters.)
> 
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