Hi Matt,
> It sounds like you
needed to reconstruct all your mail boxes;
> https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.10/imap/reference/manpages/systemcommands/reconstruct.html
> is probably what you
are looking for,
of course I used this tool to recover, but it was segfaulting every now and
then. So no chance to get thru 1600 mailboxes with fancy names. And when not
segfaulting, I got fancy error messages:
- XXX - this is a noop right now - needs to update mailboxes.db
- reconstruct -rf found new mailboxes and segfaulted. When creating the mailbox
with cyradm it said, the mailbox is already there. When trying to delete the
mailbox with cyradm it said permission denied. So deadlocked.
- reconstruct -M is still missing after 15 years.
- ctl_mboxlist -v is showing "has a directory but no DB entry" and "has a DB
entry but no directory on partition" on the same mailbox without any chance to
recover.
In the end a system like an IMAP server can get into a inconsistent state. But
the cyrus-tools are not helping this much. This night, I hat some time looking
into the code of some of the tools. And it looks like they are not meant to be
used in desaster scenarios. I never had so many segfaults in my kernel messages
than this night. So I decided during recovery, that I will not try the upgrade
again but migrate to a different MDA. After 15 years on cyrrusd with some
trouble every now and then...
--Chris
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