On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 4:17:16 PM CEST Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, > > All the Cyrus IMAP servers I've ever setup - I've setup squatter to index > the mailboxes. > > I keep the data for it on a separate meta partition. Recently we lost that > partition (but not the main mail spools) - this had a nasty effect of > having Cyrus declare every mailbox as 'invalid' - because it couldn't find > the mailboxes directory or data in the meta partition hierarchy (because it > was empty). > > I disabled squatter support in imapd.conf - and the server is happy to > serve mailboxes again. > > Is there any way to have the system go through and recreate the directory > hierarchy that was lost?
Not certain, but before I configure Cyrus to do it on a schedule itself, I had the following in my crontab: /bin/su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/squatter -v -r -i user" cyrus > Anyone know if it's more tolerant if the files are missing - rather than > the whole directory? I don't think I ever had cyrus fail to start due to missing files, I always had it happily rebuild it on startup. Only exception to this was when the format changed, but it was well-documented on how to convert the format. > And the final question is - does anyone still use squatter? - A lot of mail > clients now seem to just "download everything" anyway? I really dislike clients that insist on downloading and indexing the emails itself, but don't have much choice when it comes to desktop-apps. Web-based email clients do tend to use squatter (server-based search) and this is why I still have it enabled. -- Joost ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Devel Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/T82aa2a332e2b856b-M1359f3d225428e79d665ed14 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/subscription
