This is a Mac OS X Server box, with the standard Cyrus configuration.
I first tried a reconstruct – the domain is small enough, takes only a few minutes. Still error on start. To me it wasn't clear which database was actually corrupted. So I restored the configuration directory (/private/var/imap) from nightly backups. That did the trick.
So the system got up and started receiving mail again.At the end of this though, I noticed that I lost mail flags (read and answered in particular). I'm at a loss to describe why, since reconstruct was supposed to preserve them. That's not so nice… is there a good way of getting them back? Are they saved in the cyrus.index files in the mailbox directories?
Could I restore cyrus.index files from backups and run reconstruct? I guess this would destroy flags of anything that has happened since the outage though… which is still a lot better.
Is there even a way to combine flags from the current cyrus.index files and the ones that I would restore from a few days ago?
Best regards, Joakim Arfvidsson
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