[alpha39]

Okay, I highly suggest [b]nobody ever try using reconstruct on OS X Server. [/b] From my experience here and others on this forum and apple support, it looks like it will break mailboxes no matter how you run it.

For anyone who has nuked their databases with this, I was able to rebuild it using “mailbfr -f” which you can download here: http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/41/57/

Unfortunately it will reset your read states, but that’s better then starting from scratch!

[alpha39]

Well that did the trick… Somewhat.

I fired off reconstruct with no arguments (doh), and got to watch it go through every user and clean out their mailboxes.

While I now know how to get it to target just my junk boxes, does anyone know if I can restore the mails for my other users or are they toast?

Don’t run reconstruct on its own unless you want to loose everything!

[alpha39]

Super old topic, but I’d run into the same thing and found the cause.

Turns out it had to do with my /etc/aliases file sending messages to a certain account to both the local account and a remote one. The trouble messages were spam, and when it tried to send it to the remote account, -something- happened which resulted in my server then sending something back to the email the spam came from, which then got rejected by that server and caused it to hang around in the mail queue suspiciously.

Pretty obscure, but the logs really aren’t telling me much more then that, but hopefully this might be a bit of help to someone.

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