cyrus imap recontruct recursivley

Posted by: andreas on Tis, 06 November 2007 21:25:46 +01:00 (1077 Reads)

Cyrus reconstruct with no arguments now does a full recursive reconstruct of all users and folders. So this post is obsolete.

Several times now I ran into problems where mailboxes got the cyrus.index file corrupted. cyrus.index had to be deleted and recreated with reconstruct on the mailbox. And recursive reconstruct never worked for me. So i have to do reconstruct on every single subfolder.

Cyrus reconstruct with no arguments now does a full recursive reconstruct of all users and folders. So this post is obsolete.

First i went to the root folder of the users mailbox

# cd /var/spool/imap/domain/n/nyback.com/a/user/andreas/

Then i ran:

# find . -name cyrus.index | xargs rm

Then logged in as cyrus

# su - cyrus

And ran:

# for X in `cd /var/spool/imap/domain/n/nyback.com/a/user/andreas/ ; find . -name cyrus.cache`; do Y=`echo ${X%/*} | cut -d . -f2`; ./reconstruct user/andreas$Y@nyback.com; done

And it goes through a reconstruct on all the mailbox folders.

 

Could be extended to a script that takes a username as argument or if no usernme is given goes through all users on the server.

Next time maybe... 

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