Lost mailbox ACLs (rewrite)

[Troy Carpenter]

On Thursday 24 July 2008 11:43:20 am Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Troy,
>
> the version of your Kolab Server would be very important to know.
> There had been problems with skiplist databases before,
> they should not happend with berkleydb or very new Server versions.
> Also the kernel of your host operating system can be important.

No problem.  At the time, I was using 2.2-RC3 with some config differences 
from the distribution for Postfix and Horde.  My server is Ubuntu Hardy 64bit:

root at sol:~# uname -a
Linux sol 2.6.24-18-server #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:21:05 UTC 2008 x86_64

I can only give you the nebulous "something happened" which caused me to 
rebuild the mailbox files using  /kolab/bin/cyrreconstruct.  After that, I 
noticed that some mailboxes were not accessible by the end users. Using 
"/kolab/bin/cyradm -U manager localhost", I was able to change the ACLs on 
most of the mailboxes by adding the owner back to the list.  But on a handful 
of mailboxes, there were no ACLs listed at all.  For those even the manager 
account couldn't do anything.

So using "/kolab/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxlist.txt", I edited the 
mailboxlist.txt file so that it had the right ACLs for the mailboxes missing 
them.  I reloaded the list and presto, everything was back to normal.

Hope that helps.

Troy

>On Monday 14 July 2008 04:39, Troy Carpenter wrote:
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> Ok, here's how I fixed it.  I was still able to get the mailbox database
>> via the command "/kolab/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxlist.txt".  Then I
>> edited the file to correct the ACLs as necessary, then reloaded the file
>> with the opposite command "/kolab/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxlist.txt".
>>  I basically used the wiki page
>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Backups_for_kolab2#IMAP_store_recovery_.28c
>>yrus.29 as a guide.
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