Re: Corrupt mailbox

Eric Luyten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Organization Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/03/2022 19:43, Pascal Gienger via Info wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Sure.
Just to be clear: I only do this on an idled Cyrus server.


Eric.



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