Hi! In preparation for a migration to a new server, I've had to touch all ~140k mailboxes on my system, and I've discovered a handful that are listed by "cyrus mboxlist" (this is Debian/Ubuntu with their "cyrus" helper script), but that do not correspond to any directory in the filesystem.
How can I delete these? "reconstruct" in cyradm or "cyrus reconstruct" produce errors like the following: # cyrus reconstruct user.[redacted].Templates user.[redacted].Templates: failed to read index header user.[redacted].Templates: Invalid mailbox name (null) # cyradm -u cyrus localhost Password: localhost> reconstruct user.[redacted].Templates reconstruct: Invalid mailbox name And "deletemailbox" says "Permission denied": localhost> dm user.[redacted].Templates deletemailbox: Permission denied but I can't change ACLs on the ghost mailboxes: localhost> sam user.[redacted].Templates cyrus all setaclmailbox: cyrus: lrswipkxtea: Invalid mailbox name I can, however, list their current ACL: localhost> lam user.[redacted].Templates [redacted] lrswipcda (Again, these do NOT correspond to any directory on the filesystem.) Obviously, there's nothing in these and the users haven't been able to access them, but how can I delete them from the database? I guess this is sort of a moot point for me since my attempt to transfer them to the new server is not going to succeed and the bogus mailboxes won't exist on the new server, but it would be nice not to have to keep track of which failures (real mailboxes) are problematic and which are not. I'm also kind of curious how the mailbox database got in this state. I do notice that these mailboxes tend to have "Trash" or "Test" in them somewhere, or seem to have the same folder name as another mailbox elsewhere in the user's hierarchy, so it may be a problem with users moving folders. Also, I can imagine it might have to do with partially completed restores from tape backup, but if so they're probably before my time here. This is on 2.4.17, BTW. (Working on a migration to 3.4.3. After some failed attempts at setting up replication, I'm just going to be using imapsync to move people's mailboxes.) Jay -- Jay Sekora Linux system administrator and postmaster, The Infrastructure Group MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/Te4b694eca4c5d369-M75454d0dafacd87befaed919 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription
