On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:42 +0100, Daniel Bramkamp wrote: > Hi list, > > I am experiencing some issues with IMAP folders at a customer site. > They used to run Cyrus IMAP 2.0.x a while back which got updated to > 2.1.12 or 2.1.13 at some point. The following was added to the > imapd.conf file when the update took place : > > seenstate_db: flat > mboxlist_db: berkeley > duplicate_db: berkeley-nosync > > With those settings the system worked fine for quite a while. Last week > the installation was moved to a new server which now has Cyrus IMAP > 2.2.12 installed. I copied the spool and database directory of the old > installation to the appropriate locations. After reading the upgrade > information on the website I tried to update the mailboxes.db to the > skiplist format which did not work for some reason. Either it did > complain about not being able to find the database or it converted it > (after starting and stopping Cyrus once) and I got a lot of DB errors > after starting up Cyrus with the new DB. I put the above directives > back into the config file, copied the imap database directory again and > restarted Cyrus. At that point I could access the IMAP server via IMP > (a webmail client) > but some folders were empty. After running reconstruct everything > seemed fine at first. However, the IMAP folders are not displayed > correctly from time to time, they just vanish from the list of folders. > Also IMP complains about not being able to create folders for sent-mail > and trash. I tried to delete mailboxes, recreate them, copy the spool > directory back in and use reconstruct -f but that did not help either. > I could not find anything weird in the logfiles either. > > Can anyone help me out on this please ? ---- 1 - in IMP, you might want to go to 'Folders' refresh the list of folders.
2 - you should check out IMAP with another mail client application (thunderbird/evolution/etc.) to see what it sees for folders. 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
