| mirozake 2005-09-05, 6:00 pm |
| i'm replying to myself to give more info on this. I realized i didn't
provide enough information...
I inherited this server with very little experience about os x server
(and unix for that matter) and even littler information given to me
about all the settings, etc.. It is a 10.3 os x server. Next thing I
know, the following week, I was told people are not able to get their
mails. First it seemed like passwords were not working, which
immediately scared me. I thought maybe the server got hacked in. Then,
little more research and I realized some of the passwords (like the
root password) was still working. It seemed certain kind of user
accounts were messed up. I looked into this, doing more research
online. It seemed that something was gone haywire essentiallly with
some parts of the Berkeley DB (not totally sure aobut this though). I
was not able to repair anything (probably not enough knowledge).
Looking at other things, being able to backup, I (and the other guy who
was trying to help me) decided to wipe it all off and restore.
So, now we have the server back basically. We just use the mail
software that comes with it (which is using Cyrus in the background).
When backing up. We backed up the mail folders, user folders and the
mailboxed.db. The only thing that I was not able to foloow was
converting the mailboxed.db to text (the commands i read didnt' work
for some reason). Now, it seemed by simply putting the back the mail in
their respective user folders (after creating new users with same
names) it seemed like it was working. But no matter what the email
clients, people can not see their mails in respected folders.
Any ideas? I appreciate the help. It has been a great learning
experience but I am sooo ready to find a resolution to all this...
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