Re: Corrupt mailbox

"Pascal Gienger via Info" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/3/2022 11:38 AM, Eric Luyten wrote:
> 
> On 03/03/2022 16:14, Pascal Gienger via Info wrote:
>> ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxes.txt
>>
>> removing mailboxes from mailboxes.txt
>>
>> ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes.txt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Trying the second command on a standby/testing system first, sure.
> 
> 
> 
> and execute a  'cp  /dev/null  mailboxes.db'  before the 'undump' or you 
> will end up with (close to) double the number of entries in de database

Maybe better do a

ctl_mboxlist -f mailboxes_new.db -u < mailboxes.txt

Then after making a backup of the old mailboxes.db a

mv mailboxes_new.db mailboxes.db

to have an atomic change.

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