Personal tools
HOWTO - fixing problems with user imap folders
- When the user gets an error message on login or has problems accessing a particular folder. That is the IMAP returns an error message.
it is necessary to carry out the following operation on imap.ictp.it
- login via ssh as as root:
ssh root@imap
- su to user cyrus:
su - cyrus
- Run the tool to fix the mailboxes of the user (PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS TOOL WITHOUT
SPECIFYING A mailbox (
user/<loginname>
):/usr/lib/cyrus/ictp-imapd/ictp_reconstruct -r -i user/<loginname> Wait until it finishes
- exit from user cyrus and from the root account:
exit; exit
- All mailbox issues apart from quota are fixed by running the tool:
/usr/lib/cyrus/ictp-imapd/ictp_reconstruct -r -i user/<loginname>
- All users have a default quota of 2GB. For some users sabrina, krs, alvi, giorgi
their quota are unlimited as they already had over 2GB of e-mails.. quota issues may
be detected from the log files
/var/log/mail/info