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6 ctl_mboxlist - Cyrus IMAP documentation
7 Perform operations on the mailbox list database
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11 ctl_mboxlist [ -C config-file ] -d [ -x ] [ -p partition ] [ -f filename ]
12 ctl_mboxlist [ -C config-file ] -u [ -f filename ]
13 ctl_mboxlist [ -C config-file ] -m [ -a ] [ -w ] [ -i ] [ -f filename ]
14 ctl_mboxlist [ -C config-file ] -v [ -f filename ]
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17 ctl_mboxlist is used to perform various administrative operations on
18 the mailbox list database.
19 ctl_mboxlist reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5)
21 file unless specified otherwise by -C. The configdirectory option in
22 imapd.conf(5) is used to determine the default location of the mail‐
23 boxes database.
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26 -C config-file
27 Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the
28 default imapd.conf(5).
29 -d Dump the contents of the database to standard output in a porta‐
31 ble flat-text format. NOTE: In Cyrus versions 2.2.13 and ear‐
32 lier, the dump format did not include the mailbox type flags,
33 breaking remote mailboxes (frontends, mupdate master, unified
34 backends) when undumped.
35 -x When performing a dump, remove the mailboxes dumped from the
37 mailbox list (mostly useful when specified with -p).
38 -p partition
40 When performing a dump, dump only thise mailboxes that live on
41 partition.
42 -f filename
44 Use the database specified by filename instead of the default
45 (configdirectory/mailboxes.db*).
46 -u Load the contents of the database from standard input. The
48 input MUST be in the format output by the -d option.
49 NOTE:
51 Both the old and new formats can be loaded, but the old format will
52 break remote mailboxes.
53 -m For backend servers in the Cyrus Murder, synchronize the local
55 mailbox list file with the MUPDATE server.
56 -a When used with -m, assume the local mailboxes file is authori‐
58 tiative, that is, only change the mupdate server, do not delete
59 any local mailboxes.
60 IMPORTANT:
62 USE THIS OPTION WITH CARE, as it allows namespace collisions into
63 the murder.
64 -w When used with -m, print out what would be done but do not per‐
66 form the operations.
67 -i When used with -m, asks for verification before deleting local
69 mailboxes.
70 -v Verify the consistency of the mailbox list database and the
72 spool partition(s). Mailboxes present in the database and not
73 located on a spool partition, and those located on a spool par‐
74 tition (directory containing a valid cyrus.header file) and not
75 present in the database will be reported. Note that this func‐
76 tion is very I/O intensive.
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79 ctl_mboxlist -d
80 Dump the mailboxes list in portable text format.
81 ctl_mboxlist -u < newmboxlist.dump
83 Undump (restore) the mailboxes database from newmboxlist.dump, a
84 portable text formatted file.
85 ctl_mboxlist -m
87 Synchronize our mailboxes database with the MUPDATE server. (One
88 may commonly put a command like this into the START section of
89 cyrus.conf(5) on backend nodes of a Murder cluster to cause the
90 backend to syncronize its mailbox list with the mupdate master upon
91 startup).
92 ctl_mboxlist -m -w
94 The same as above, but only show us what would be done, don't actu‐
95 ally do it.
96 ctl_mboxlist -m -a
98 Populate the Mupdate server from our copy of the mailboxes database.
99 NOTE:
101 Be very careful with this option, as it can create conflicts in
102 the Murder.
103 ctl_mboxlist -m -i
105 Synchronize our mailboxes database with the MUPDATE server interac‐
106 tively, asking for verification before deleting any local mailboxes.
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109 /etc/imapd.conf, <configdirectory>/mailboxes.db
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112 imapd.conf(5), master(8)
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115 The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight), Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Sys‐
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119 1993-2017, The Cyrus Team
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