On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:44 -0500, Leland F. Jackson wrote: > I am using Thunderbird to move messages from my Cyrus system on > 192.168.1.109 to my dbmail system on 192.168.1.78. I have set up an > account in Thunderbird for both the Cyrus user and corresponding dbmail > user. I then used Thunderbird to create new folders in dbmail that > matches the folders I had under Cyrus for a particular user. Then I > used Thunderbird to copy the emails from the Cyrus folders to the new > corresponding dbmail folder by doing a [select all] menu option to > select all emails in the cyrus folder, then right clicking on all the > emails highlighted from the [select all], and then clicking on the [copy > to] menu option that appears, and finally navigating the Thunderbird > tree menu that appears to click on the new corresponding folder in > dbmail. Then thunderbird copies all emails from the Cyrus folder to the > corresponding new dbmail folder. > > I have also downloaded and installed the DBMA administration tool. I > then twice ran a [database cleanup] from the DBMA tool, which seems to > have set the status on all emails in all folders in the dbmail system to > status 003. I looked at the DBMA admin doc and it indicates a database > cleanup would mark all orphaned records with a status 003, (eg marked > for deletion status). All the emails copied from the Cyrus system to > the corresponding folder in dbmail no longer appear in Thunderbird, but > all emails in the dbmail system do appear in the DBMA tool, but with a > 003 status. Does this mean that all the emails copied from Cyrus to > dbmail are orphaned? > > Does anyone have any idea about what happened, and where I should go > from here? > > Regards, > > LelandJ
I have no idea what caused the problem of them being deleted in dbmail (I don't use thunderbird, but others do, and I've never heard of that happening). As for right now, if you do see the messages there, you can "undelete" them by setting the status to 0 (new) or 1 (read). Don't do any maintenance/cleanup runs again, or you'll likely loose them (the next step after status=3 is to be deleted from the database). I don't know if DBMA makes that easy to do or not, but if not something like "update dbmail_messages set status=1;" in sql ought to do the trick. Jesse -- Jesse Norell Kentec Communications, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
