Hi Alex, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Feizhou wrote: > >> What does one do when the indexes for a mailbox gets hosed? I know of >> one person who used cyrus and when it got hosed, he came running to me >> to get him a mail system up and running pronto. > > > You reconstruct them. There's command that does that, you know. I'd > suggest reading man reconstruct. I don't run cyrus nor have I ever ran it. The guy that came running to me did try reconstruct to no avail so I suspect that that was a case of the mailboxes database going bust or something. I really have no idea though for this was over three years ago. > > While we are at it, it might be good practice to change all *db options > in /etc/imapd.conf from Berkely DB to skiplist prior to starting Cyrus > for the first time. Something like: > > annotation_db: skiplist > duplicate_db: skiplist > mboxlist_db: skiplist > ptscache_db: skiplist > quota_db: skiplist > seenstate_db: skiplist > subscription_db: skiplist > tlscache_db: skiplist I don't mean to turn this into a cyrus tutorial thread but since cyrus is what is bundled... What does this do?