chk_cyrus was: Errors deleting mailboxes

Hi,

On 13 Feb 2022, at 23:37, ellie timoney wrote:

> Your earlier email shows "chk_cyrus" complaining. I'm not familiar with this tool, and our tests don't run it. Looking at git history, it hasn't had substantial work in some time, so I wonder if the tool is simply out of date, and complaining about something perfectly normal that it hasn't been updated to recognise. Alas, when it finds the error that causes it to bail out, it doesn't bother to report _what the error was_. D'oh!

regarding this point: we’re still on Cyrus 2.4 (sigh), and we run this job monthly:

/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/chk_cyrus 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/perl -nle 's/\./\//g;/(^.*) uid/;print "\"$1\""'| /bin/sort | /usr/bin/uniq | /usr/bin/xargs -rn 1 /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct

It runs reconstruct on all mailboxes that chk_cyrus complains about. When your server is running stable, there might not be anything to do, but there were times when we had multiple mailboxes with issues per month.

I think that’s a useful tool to have. Is the idea that it’s not required anymore in current versions, or just that nobody has thought of it?

Cheers,
Sebastian
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