On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:36:26AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > This is incorrect. Cyrus storage method is basically maildir with an > index database for performance. If the index database gets > corrupted, it can be completely rebuilt from the messages in the > mail directory, using the cyrus admin commands.
Well, I've now removed courier-imap and installed cyrus instead, to do some testing. It works so far that I can send mails to my testuser on the server, the testuser can read them via IMAP, and he can create and delete folders. My first impression is that cyrus is considerably faster than courier. But to get a decent number of mails into the testusers mailbox for testing, I'd like to copy over all mail from ~test/Maildir/.debian-users into /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test/example (or another folder, preferably debian-users). Then, I'd run reconstruct -r user.test and reconstruct -m, and my test should be able to merely read all those mails. Before copying over about 38000 files, I just copied over one single file from ~test/Maildir/.debian-users/cur to /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test. After that, I've run reconstruct as above, but the message does *not* appear in the INBOX when viewed via IMAP. Ok, I renamed the message file to 1. and did reconstruct again, but it still doesn't appear in the INBOX. Finally, I removed the cyrus.* files from /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test and did a reconstruct again, but to no avail. Even worse, the cyrus.* files are not recreated, and the mailbox has become completely unavailable via IMAP. Here's some output I get: little:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test# ls -la total 32 drwx------ 6 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 19:59 . drwx------ 3 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 19:17 .. -rw-r----- 1 cyrus mail 4193 Feb 4 19:56 1. drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:23 Drafts drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:23 Sent drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:23 Trash drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:23 example little:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test# cyrus@little:~$ /usr/sbin/reconstruct -r user user.test.Drafts user.test.Sent user.test.Trash user.test.example user.test.Drafts user.test.Sent user.test.Trash user.test.example cyrus@little:~$ /usr/sbin/reconstruct -m user.test.Drafts default user.test.Sent default user.test.Trash default user.test.example default cyrus@little:~$ little:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test# ls -la total 32 drwx------ 6 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 19:59 . drwx------ 3 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 19:17 .. -rw-r----- 1 cyrus mail 4193 Feb 4 19:56 1. drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:24 Drafts drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:24 Sent drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:24 Trash drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Feb 4 20:24 example little:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/test# When trying to connect via IMAP, I'm getting the message that the mailbox doesn't exit. Recovering from crashes/errors doesn't seem to be so easy. What am I doing wrong here? Are there other programs to recover from problems? GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
