>imap:/var/imap # /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes >fatal error: can't initialize mboxlist environment >imap:/var/imap # /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -c >fatal error: can't initialize mboxlist environment >imap:/var/imap # > >this errors i got ... mboxlist environment, this looks like that the imap >file structure are damaged or ? Hoping you are talking about Cyrus 2.0.x: There can be a simple reason: Do you run "ctl_mboxlist" as the cyrus imap user? These programs are checking the effective user id of the process and are denying it if it is 0 (root). But normally (looking at the source code), it should give "fatal error: must run as the Cyrus user" then... Second explanation try: It means that there is an inconsistency with your mailboxes.db file (the name(s) depend on your Database library lying under it). If you compiled Cyrus with DB3, then you can do a db_dump /var/imap/mailboxes.db (assuming your cyrus config is in /var/imap) You should get something like VERSION=3 format=bytevalue type=btree HEADER=END [... many other info...] For other db, dbm or gdbm database types (if you have mailboxes.pag and mailboxes.dir, you have the dbm library) there should be appropriate commands. Try also ctl_mboxlist -d to see if it works. As posted before, I also noticed some problems with ctl_mboxlist -u. Backup your /var/imap/mailboxes.db (or.pag and .dir) and /var/imap/db/*. Delete all items in /var/imap/db afterwards and your mailboxes.db (or .pag and .dir). Do a "touch /var/imap/mailboxes.db" (or touch /var/imap/mailboxes.pag /var/imap/mailboxes.dir) and run ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes afterwards. Face yourself to the fact that you have to redo all ACLs afterwards (see my former posting to this list). Finally. Pascal --
