Re: files on disk but not in index?

Ken Murchison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
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You can use 'mbexamine' and 'unexpunge -l' on a mailbox and compare the 
UIDs listed by the 2 commands to the message files in the mailbox directory.

I you think you have orphaned (not expunged) message files, you can try 
'reconstruct -G' on the mailbox to restore them into the index.


On 5/6/20 7:11 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 14:29 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> I'm fairly convinced that I have (lots of) files in my Cyrus mail
>> spool
>> that are not actually in any index -- orphan files.
>>
>> How can I verify this and identify the orphan files?
> Nobody has any ideas at all about how this can be verified and cleaned
> up?
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
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