Cyrus 2.2.8 upgrade - I nuked my emails...

DAWG98 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 34

I recently upgraded to Cyrus-Imapd-2.2.8 from -2.1.5. It required me to change the mailbox.db etc to flat/skiplist. In the conversion process I somehow nuked my master mailbox file. After rebuilding the file I can get and send email again, however, all my old emails can no longer be 'seen' using various email clients.

When I browse to /var/spool/imap/t/user/test/ I can still see the various smtp mail text files containing my old emails i.e., 1. 2. etc. It appears that some db or the cyrus.index/header/cache files do not provide the email client with the appropriate info to display the emails.

I tried reconstruct and mboxfer to no avail. Is there any way to recover, import or similar way so that the emails re-appear in my inbox?

Thanks,

DAWG98

DAWG98 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 34

rical · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 2

Have you tried to follow these precise steps :

Cyrus migration

Sometimes the script hangs but don't worry and do it again :wink:

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Rico

DAWG98 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 34

I was able to convert the databases no problem. Now the email works fine. But somehow I nuked my mailboxes.db and had to rebuild it from scratch. After the rebuild my old emails that were sitting in the Inbox no longer show up. However, I can still see the files containing the individual emails in the /var/spool/imap/user dirs. Is there a way to re-import the emails?

georwell · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject:

Do you have a backup copy of your old mailbox.db ?

These threads might help you...

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=mailbox.db%20corrupt&msg=21637

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=seen%20database&msg=18670

DAWG98 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 34

Thanks for all the input but nothing yielded the desired result. Instead, I exported the maildir emails into mbox format, opened the resulting file as a local folder in Mozilla and moved the emails to the appropriate folder.

I used maildir2mbox for the conversion (extracted from qmail). It worked pretty good, but kinda painful of a process. Anyone know of a simpler more convenient method?

DAWG98

DAWG98 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 34

I just wrote a script that re-delivers all emails older than the nuke date. Works like a champ