Cyrus IMAP logs DBERROR and reports corruption of /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
Issue
Mail server configured with Cyrus IMAP stops delivering e-mail, /var/log/maillog shows errors similar to:
Mar 7 04:02:11 localhost ctl_mboxlist[16632]: DBERROR: reading /var/lib/imap/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or directory
Mar 7 04:02:11 localhost ctl_mboxlist[16632]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Possibly other versions too
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