Hi Mark,
unfortunately I've got stuck again. I followed your advices but pruning mailbox
has failed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mailutil prune /home/someuser/Mail/Restore "before
1-jan-1970"
warning: mix index invalid UID (00000001 < 00000000), repaired
warning: mix index invalid UID (0000286e < 00000001), repaired
Missing mix data file: /home/someuser/Mail/Restore/.mix01245185
warning: Can't delete empty message file: No such file or directory
warning: Can't delete empty message file: No such file or directory
Error in stat of mix message file: No such file or directory
I didn't get it. Mixrbld finished successfully, .mixindex then replaced with
.mixindex-rebuild, but as I understend it contains references to nonexistent
message files :(
Any idea how to overcome this issue ?
Other mailboxes have had complete backups including index, status and meta
files. Why these weren't archived in this case is still a mystery to me.
Whereas the backup script handles all mailboxes in the same way.
Thanks.
David
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>Od: Mark Crispin
>Přijato: 9.10.2007 0:12:10
>Předmět: RE: RE: Re: [Imap-uw] How to recteate meta and status files of mailbox
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>On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> The .mixmeta is like .mixstatus empty.
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>> This mailbox was restored from backup but unfortunately .mixindex,
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>> .mixstatus and .mixmeta were not archived :( Files containing e-mails
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>> are correct. Nothing was modified. I just need somehow to
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>> rebuild/recreate these lost files to make this mailbox usable again.
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>How did the original problem happen? How was it that only the data files
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>were on backup but not the other files?
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>In your situation, the easiest thing to do is probably the following:
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>Create a new, empty mailbox via mailutil create, e.g.
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> mailutil create #driver.mix/restore
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>Restore all the data files into the mailbox named "restore", then rebuild
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>the index:
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> mixrbld restore
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> mv restore/.mixindex-rebuild restore/.mixindex
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>Next, do some operation which will write the mailbox but not do anything,
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>e.g.
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> mailutil prune "before 1-jan-1970"
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>You'll be rewarded with a
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> warning' mix index invalid UID (######## < ########), repaired
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>for each message in the mailbox, and finally
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> No matching messages, so nothing purged
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>The mailbox should now be fixed.
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>-- Mark --
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>http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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>Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
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