It was indeed the tab at the end of each line that caused the problem. I added the tab to the end of each line and implemented it about 3 PM Saturday afternoon and brought the server back on line.
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 12:14, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Hank Beatty wrote: > > > Took dir.txt and converted it to the format of mboxlist file (except for > > the tab on the end of each line. Not sure if this caused a problem) > > This will likely cause a problem with the ACLs. > > > The above steps got POP working, but IMAP gives ???Mailbox does not > > exist??? when trying to select the ???INBOX??? using squirrelmail. > > I suspect this can be caused by a munged ACL. > > > I also tried using the reconstruct command before and after moving the > > mailboxes.db to no avail. At this point I???m thinking of writing the > > ???m option of reconstruct unless anyone has some better ideas or has > > already written something that might help. While writing the ???m option > > I might try to figure out why the ???f and ???r options of reconstruct > > didn???t appear to work in my case. I???m wondering if the ???f and ???r > > options don???t work because I???m using the fulldirhash option. > > -r means "look at the mailbox list and descend" > > -f means "look at subdirectories" which won't always work quite right on > top level mailboxes because of how hashing is done. > > Its unlikely fulldirhash affected this at all. > > -Rob > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper -- Hank Beatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>