after reconstruct, folders there, mail is gone.

[clwolf]

(cross post from an apple discusssions. Sorry if this is a no no, but need answers fast).

After a server crash, we got almost everything back, except mail. I copied the /var/imap and /var/spool/imap from a known good backup. Server Admin stated 5GB of mail in the store, but unknown mail path for all users.

Verified cyrusimap and mail w/ owner:group for both…yep. Tried reconstruct….said it couldn’t read mailboxes file. Fair enough. Backed up mailboxes.db and backed up imap folder, removed imap folder, and recreated imap folder via mkimap tool.

Used reconstruct -i. Then used reconstruct -r -f ….looking good. Recreated users and all folders. Great. More no mail, I repeat NO mail is in any folder for any user.

HELP!!!!!

(this is on a 10.4.2 server)

[Anonymous]

Delete every file like “cyrus.*” in every mailbox.

And reconscrut all mailbox with the data :

sudo -u cyrusimap /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconscruct -r user/*

[Demani]

I tried running the above line on a user who had many older emails returned to his var/spool/imap/user/ folder to restore a machine after a server outage but nothing that wasn’t there before is
showing up now. How do I force the index to recheck all the messages in the directory? I thought that the above would do it (I read the man reconstruct page too- it says the same thing to reconstruct a user’s mailbox) but no luck.

I delete the cyrus.* files but nothing seems to generate new ones.
Any ideas?

[Author]

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