Re: Deleting "ghost" mailboxes that don't correspond to filesystem directories
Jay Sekora <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:15:00PM +0100, Michael Menge wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Jay Sekora <[email protected]>: > I don't know the Debian/Ubuntu "cyrus" helper script. I will therefor refer > to the > "ctl_mboxlist -d" which probably gives the list of mailboxes with some > additional information As I understand it the Debian/Ubuntu "cyrus" script just sets up an appropriate environment for calling the upstream Cyrus utilities (making sure they're run as the "cyrus" user, for instance), so "cyrus mboxlist -d" should be equivalent to ".../bin/ctl_mboxlist -d", assuming UID/GID etc. are correct. > first check "unixhierarchysep:" setting in your imapd.conf. The default value > has changed in cyrus-imapd 3.0. Good thought, but that's off on both servers and we're just using "." as the separator. > also if I remember correctly, in cyrus-imap 2.4 tombstone records where > introduced to the mailboxlist. > An entry with " 16 (null) " indicates an "recently" deleted mailbox > So you can ignore those. Not the case for these: # /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d | grep user.[redacted].T user.[redacted].Templates 0 s [redacted] lrswipcda user.[redacted].Trash 0 s [redacted] lrswipcda (And both of those happen to be problem already-exists-but-does-not-exist folders.) Jay ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/Te4b694eca4c5d369-Mfe826e46224ee117f1b304ca Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription