On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:22 -0500, Bing Du wrote: > >> Cyrus imap server (2.2.10) > >> Linux 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 > >> GNU/Linux > >> > >> I have several folders. All of a sudden, > >> all the emails in my INBOX are gone!!! Other folders look fine though. > >> Those gone INBOX messages are not found in the TRASH folder either. > >> Where did they go? > >> > >> Anybody want to give me some hints what could have happened, where on > >> the server to look for possible evidences? Not familiar with cyrus, > >> where > >> are the mail logs stored? > > I use SquirreMail 1.4.3a-9.EL4 as mail client. It's web based. I did not > do anything special. As the first I do every morning, I just went through > various folders and deleted those messages I did not want to keep after I > read. I have root access to the mail server. Under my mail directory, I > don't see any additional folder created to store those lost messages due > to INBOX over quota. We don't have quota on INBOX here. > > The thing confused me is if it was me who deleted all the messages in > INBOX, say by accident, those messages should be saved in the TRASH > folders. However, the TRASH folder just had old trash and the newly > deleted messages that I was aware of. In another word, those lost INBOX > emails are not found in the TRASH folder. > > Any other thoughts, anybody? ---- either those mails are there or they are not - use a shell to see if they are there... (note these commands track my RHEL system-YMMV)
cd /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig ls -l if the mails are there, then reconstruct su - cyrus -c '/var/lib/cyrus-imapd/recontstruct -fr user.craig if those mails aren't there, there's no magic to make them re-appear As for squirrelmail, I don't use it. Normally, IMAP would simply set a flag for deleted messages and require a separate purge operation to fully delete them. It is possible that a mail client implementation such as squirrelmail could create a 'Trash' folder, and copy all deleted emails to this folder and set the delete flag on the deleted messages and purge at some pre-appointed interval (perhaps even logout) but that would be the squirrelmail implementation and not of interest here. That would strike me as a rather poor concept for IMAP - especially when you have a bunch of users as it creates too much work each time you delete a message. In fact, it seems that your questions would be better served at a list that handles squirrelmail. Craig ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
