On Feb 10, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:20:42PM -0600, Josh Whitver wrote:
>> On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, you have a broken mailboxes.db I'd say!
>>>
>>> Here's what I would do:
>>>
>>> # stop cyrus
>>> cyr_dbtool /var/imap/mailboxes.db skiplist show > mailboxes.dump
>>> cyr_dbtool -n /var/lib/mailboxes_new.db skiplist set <  
>>> mailboxes.dump
>>> mv /var/imap/mailboxes.db /var/imap/mailboxes_old.db
>>> mv /var/lib/mailboxes_new.db /var/imap/mailboxes.db
>>> # start cyrus
>>>
>>> This will give you a brand new clean mailboxes.db (but keep the old
>>> one
>>> just in case)
>>>
>>> Bron.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks - is this one of those operations that will kill the read/ 
>> unread
>> status of my messages, or should all that stuff be preserved?
>
> No, it won't kill anything (hopefully).  You may want to compare the
> output of show on the new file with show on the old file.  They  
> _should_
> be identical.
>
> If you want to email me (privately) a copy of your old mailboxes.db,  
> I'd
> be happy to have a look through it and check for corruption.   
> Obviously
> it contains private details (usernames, folder names and ACLs - no
> actual email) of your users, so it's up to you.
>
> Bron ( who knows the skiplist format far too intimately! )

Well, I just tried it - no dice.  Same issues persist, even with a  
fresh mailboxes.db file.

Next steps?
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Josh Whitver
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