Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
Hey All, One of our users has the following folders listed in his account: user/joe/INBOX/A =D (\HasChildren) user/joe/INBOX/A =D/Accounts (\HasNoChildren) These folders don't exist because the were remnants of our mail system before we turned on ALTNAMESPACE. The problem is that when I try to delete the folder in cyradm or in outlook, cyrus just returns errors. Any ideas? Thanks, Lee
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
Quoting Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey All, One of our users has the following folders listed in his account: user/joe/INBOX/A =D (\HasChildren) user/joe/INBOX/A =D/Accounts (\HasNoChildren) These folders don't exist because the were remnants of our mail system before we turned on ALTNAMESPACE. The problem is that when I try to delete the folder in cyradm or in outlook, cyrus just returns errors. Any ideas? You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. What errors are you getting from cyradm? -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key--http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. I think that might be the problem. When i try to SAM the folders pre-deletion in cyradm, i get a: setaclmailbox: admin: lcp: System I/O error Is there a way to force remove cyrus' internal list of those folders? L On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 01:50 PM, Ken Murchison wrote: Quoting Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey All, One of our users has the following folders listed in his account: user/joe/INBOX/A =D (\HasChildren) user/joe/INBOX/A =D/Accounts (\HasNoChildren) These folders don't exist because the were remnants of our mail system before we turned on ALTNAMESPACE. The problem is that when I try to delete the folder in cyradm or in outlook, cyrus just returns errors. Any ideas? You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. What errors are you getting from cyradm? -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key--http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Lee wrote: You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. I think that might be the problem. Don't do that! ;) To fix the problem, recreate the directories in the filesystem, reconstruct the mailboxes, and then delete them properly via cyradm. Is there a way to force remove cyrus' internal list of those folders? Not any easy ways, there are some test utilities for cyrusdb functionality that let you manipluate the database on a per-key basis. They're in the distribution, but they're a use-at-your-own-risk sort of thing. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
Lee wrote: You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. I think that might be the problem. When i try to SAM the folders pre-deletion in cyradm, i get a: setaclmailbox: admin: lcp: System I/O error Is there a way to force remove cyrus' internal list of those folders? If you deleted them without Cyrus knowing about it, your best bet is to take Cyrus down, dump the mboxlist (ctl_mboxlist -d file.txt), edit the text version of the file to remove things that are no longer there, and then undump the mboxlist (ctl_mboxlist -u -f file.txt), and then bring everything up. You really should not be deleting things under Cyrus's control except through Cyrus. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
I created the directories spool/imap/user/joe/INBOX and INBOX/A =D and INBOX/A =D/Accounts, then i ran recontruct -R on user/joe, but that just returned the following errors: user.joe.INBOX.A =D: System I/O error Bad file descriptor user.joe.INBOX.A =D.Accounts: System I/O error Bad file descriptor This is odd since we're using the / as the directory seperator not . (which we used to use a long time ago). BTW i also tried creating and reconstructing two top level directory folders spool/imap/user.joe.INBOX.A =D and spool/imap/user.joe.INBOX.A =D .Accounts, but it didn't change the error I recieved when running reconstruct. Any other ideas? L On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:16 PM, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Lee wrote: You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. I think that might be the problem. Don't do that! ;) To fix the problem, recreate the directories in the filesystem, reconstruct the mailboxes, and then delete them properly via cyradm. Is there a way to force remove cyrus' internal list of those folders? Not any easy ways, there are some test utilities for cyrusdb functionality that let you manipluate the database on a per-key basis. They're in the distribution, but they're a use-at-your-own-risk sort of thing. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
Lee wrote: Will this cause any problems with seen / unseen flags (or anything for that matter)? Seen flags are kept in a different database, under /var/imap/user/X/user.seen. I presume Cyrus gracefully deals with nonexistent folders in the seen/sub files, but I haven't looked at that part of the code so conceivably that might be a problem. If you want to be sure, restore the missing directories from backup and delete them the proper way though Cyrus. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
Re: Can't delete old folders from before ALTNAMESPACE
Will this cause any problems with seen / unseen flags (or anything for that matter)? L On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:34 PM, John Alton Tamplin wrote: Lee wrote: You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin, unless somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem. I think that might be the problem. When i try to SAM the folders pre-deletion in cyradm, i get a: setaclmailbox: admin: lcp: System I/O error Is there a way to force remove cyrus' internal list of those folders? If you deleted them without Cyrus knowing about it, your best bet is to take Cyrus down, dump the mboxlist (ctl_mboxlist -d file.txt), edit the text version of the file to remove things that are no longer there, and then undump the mboxlist (ctl_mboxlist -u -f file.txt), and then bring everything up. You really should not be deleting things under Cyrus's control except through Cyrus. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
