Corrupt User Mailbox

Hello,
We're running 10.5.8 server and I'm wondering if anyone can provide me with a "magic bullet" to repair a single users mailbox.
What has happened is as of Sunday evening a particular IMAP user stopped receiving emails from the Apple Mail software client on their computer; however, their emails are still coming into the server and being delivered.
According to the server logs, every-time Apple Mail attempts to connect to grab the email from the server, a crash happens:
Oct 6 12:42:55 xxx imap[1046]: login: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] emailuser CRAM-MD5 User logged in
Oct 6 12:42:56 xxx ReportCrash[2535]: Formulating crash report for process imapd[1046]
Oct 6 12:42:56 xxx master[257]: process 1046 exited, signaled to death by 10
Oct 6 12:42:56 xxx ReportCrash[2535]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/imapd2009-10-06-124255servername.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
I don't care if I have to remake their user account or whatever else, but is there a way to obtain / even see (look at), the emails in the cyrus database (or wherever), or a way to repair the mailbox?
I am going to run a security check from the Disk Utility and also try some repair operations from mailfbr.
I do have backups of the person's email, but I'm afraid that I'll only be able to restore from before Sunday (before the corruption or problem happened).
Any advice?

Let me add some more information and updates.
First, let me apologize if my information may have been confusing, missing, or not in any particular order. If you need any more logs or errors, let me know.
I've attempted pretty much everything and am at the point of giving up and calling what's in the Cyrus database lost.
I used mailbfr to reconstruct the user. (sudo mailbfr -m username)
It ran and didn't fix the problem.
I used Disk Utility to repair permissions on the entire server.
It ran and didn't fix the problem.
I recreated the user and remade it with the same UID, didn't work.
I've tried a slew of recommendations from Apple Support until they finally ran out of ideas as well.
This email account is IMAP only and EVERY time Enterauge or Apple Mail attempts to access the account to retrieve email, it logs in and crashes 'imapd'.
Here is the system log snippet:
Oct 7 08:43:39 xxx ReportCrash[37947]: Formulating crash report for process imapd[37945]
Oct 7 08:43:40 xxx master[29321]: process 37945 exited, signaled to death by 10
Oct 7 08:43:40 xxx ReportCrash[37947]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/imapd2009-10-07-084338servername.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
Here is the crash report:
Process: imapd [37946]
Path: /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/imapd
Identifier: imapd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: master [29321]
Date/Time: 2009-10-07 08:43:51.601 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 18286047-CCC9-43D8-8C47-810CAA733197
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x000000000076c01c
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 imapd 0x0005fb7c LEVEL + 116
1 imapd 0x000604cd recovery + 694
2 imapd 0x000612fa myopen + 683
3 imapd 0x0004f707 seen_open + 237
4 imapd 0x000257ec index_check + 1361
5 imapd 0x00025d1d index_newmailbox + 85
6 imapd 0x00006aaa cmd_select + 1837
7 imapd 0x0001ace6 cmdloop + 11114
8 imapd 0x0001c1b7 service_main + 1498
9 imapd 0x00002e73 main + 3502
10 imapd 0x00002006 start + 54
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x0076c01c ebx: 0x0005fb19 ecx: 0x00001fdc edx: 0x0076c01c
edi: 0x00000008 esi: 0x0076bfdc ebp: 0xbfffc638 esp: 0xbfffc620
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010206 eip: 0x0005fb7c cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x0076c01c
Binary Images:
0x1000 - 0x193fe7 +imapd ??? (???) <6aa76fb305429b8a9a951e38b0d1555e> /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/imapd
0x1c5000 - 0x1c8ffc libwrap.7.dylib ??? (???) <50d7ae449157ddf5d23f02335bbeef79> /usr/lib/libwrap.7.dylib
0x1f2000 - 0x1f4ffc apop.so ??? (???) <766caf65dc9f5f9bcbe61199e4f2b1c9> /usr/lib/sasl2/apop.so
0x1f8000 - 0x1fafff libanonymous.2.so ??? (???) <6f82b54cf4b3dcc54d869587822fabe0> /usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.2.so
0x680000 - 0x698fef dhx.so ??? (???) <11a839d053d86fd0954dbde269664829> /usr/lib/sasl2/dhx.so
0x6a7000 - 0x6affff digestmd5WebDAV.so ??? (???) <2e7da8ab9a66df48041df411f2782a5d> /usr/lib/sasl2/digestmd5WebDAV.so
0x6b3000 - 0x6b5ffc libcrammd5.2.so ??? (???) <743a682253ebc20e7924d59d40c37234> /usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.2.so
0x6b9000 - 0x6c2ffb libdigestmd5.2.so ??? (???) <d32d0b8e19b220b12aa17763a855b117> /usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.2.so
0x6c6000 - 0x6cafff libgssapiv2.2.so ??? (???) <b96da80e1defbc63aaa94e8f6dc8258c> /usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.2.so
0x6d0000 - 0x6d2ffc login.so ??? (???) <527bfdf611824f51eb53af72eee229ee> /usr/lib/sasl2/login.so
0x6d6000 - 0x6ddffc libotp.2.so ??? (???) <b3b8b26344512cf0dfe11801f88100f5> /usr/lib/sasl2/libotp.2.so
0x6e7000 - 0x6e9ffc libplain.2.so ??? (???) <d09c4532b8c67a2812a9baf30e68a8b5> /usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.2.so
0x6ed000 - 0x6f2ffc libpps.so ??? (???) <73781ebf55905226f55c981226900b4a> /usr/lib/sasl2/libpps.so
0x6f8000 - 0x6fbfff mschapv2.so ??? (???) <4297c417dc3a3cdc0425c17fbd83dadb> /usr/lib/sasl2/mschapv2.so
0x6ff000 - 0x700fff pwauxprop.so ??? (???) <3a0d1da4ab0479229c5fc417ce9b8eab> /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop.so
0x705000 - 0x707ffc shadow_auxprop.so ??? (???) <62df4f3a5e80970766a9279e7f164988> /usr/lib/sasl2/shadow_auxprop.so
0x70d000 - 0x70fffd smb_lm.so ??? (???) <ee37d0598278797989f2082561382a79> /usr/lib/sasl2/smb_lm.so
0x713000 - 0x715ffc smb_nt.so ??? (???) <137b4f2f169996cf068e5f3aaea9282a> /usr/lib/sasl2/smb_nt.so
0x719000 - 0x71cff0 smb_ntlmv2.so ??? (???) <d9ae91e9bc28f411d9fd59921165f137> /usr/lib/sasl2/smb_ntlmv2.so
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe2db43 dyld 97.1 (???) <458eed38a009e5658a79579e7bc26603> /usr/lib/dyld
0x914b3000 - 0x914f7feb com.apple.DirectoryService.PasswordServerFramework 3.0.4 (3.0.4) <45d0af6eed184b278990175527a0d3fa> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PasswordServer.framework/Versions/A/PasswordS erver
0x91710000 - 0x91717fe9 libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <a9ab135a5f81f6e345527df87f51bfc9> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
0x9182f000 - 0x9190ffff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) <7b92613fdf804fd9a0a3733a0674c30b> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x91910000 - 0x919c0fff edu.mit.Kerberos 6.0.13 (6.0.13) <804bd1b3f08fb57396781f012006367c> /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/Kerberos
0x91a3f000 - 0x91a43fff libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x92513000 - 0x9253efe7 libauto.dylib ??? (???) <42d8422dc23a18071869fdf7b5d8fab5> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x925b7000 - 0x926eafe7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.5.7 (476.19) <a332c8f45529ee26d2e9c36d0c723bad> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x92e83000 - 0x93054ffb com.apple.security 5.0.5 (36371) <1f7f48b36bc90d114220cc81e4e4694f> /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
0x9482b000 - 0x94849ff3 com.apple.DirectoryService.Framework 3.5.6 (3.5.6) <daa1307737197c7757f44f16370249dc> /System/Library/Frameworks/DirectoryService.framework/Versions/A/DirectoryServi ce
0x95016000 - 0x95073ffb libstdc++.6.dylib ??? (???) <04b812dcec670daa8b7d2852ab14be60> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
0x95086000 - 0x951bfff7 libicucore.A.dylib ??? (???) <dd8aa51c356e79ef8cdfa341a0d69f5b> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x95ebc000 - 0x95ef3fff com.apple.SystemConfiguration 1.9.2 (1.9.2) <8b26ebf26a009a098484f1ed01ec499c> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x96826000 - 0x96835fff libsasl2.2.dylib ??? (???) <bb7971ca2f609c070f87786a93d1041e> /usr/lib/libsasl2.2.dylib
0x96b79000 - 0x96c2bffb libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib ??? (???) <9d714c92872a93dd127ea8556b2c8945> /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib
0x96c4a000 - 0x96c68fff libresolv.9.dylib ??? (???) <a8018c42930596593ddf27f7c20fe7af> /usr/lib/libresolv.9.dylib
0x96cd0000 - 0x96cf4feb libssl.0.9.7.dylib ??? (???) <8084593b773bec8f2b9614fd23c5ed73> /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.7.dylib
0x96cf6000 - 0x96e5dff3 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <ae47ca9b1686b065f8ac4d2de09cc432> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0xfffe8000 - 0xfffebfff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1780 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
At the very least I'm looking for a way to retrieve any emails sent from when this started (Sunday at 5:25 PM until Yesterday 4 PM), because email is still getting delivered fine to this mailbox, but I can't log in to retrieve the mail. What I did yesterday finally after 4 PM is setup the email address to forward to another mailbox, so at least this person is getting their emails.
Could it be a bad message inside the database? If so, how can someone delete a specific message in cyrus? and heck, even know which one to delete.
Lastly, I came up with a potential idea, but haven't fully researched yet the possibility. Looking to setup a brand new user, and copying all of the email in this particular user's email box (through a utility, maybe mailbfr if it can do that) to this new account. Is this possible? If so, how? Of course, I'll continue to research this possibility by looking at, god forbid, the manuals but asking just in case it's not documented or not documented well.
If that doesn't work, I'll recreate a new email account and just manually copy everything over that this user had before in her mailbox from her desktop computer since I kept everything locally there. I'd just lose any email sent to her between Sunday night and Tuesday evening if it comes to that.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-Jessee

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I have a strange issue that is causing me angst and making me argue with my network manager. Here's the lowdown. Please shed some light on it if you can.
Every place I have worked prior to my current company I would do the following steps to create a new user (new employee). In AD I would
copy an existing user with the same/similar permissions, distro list membership, etc... Then go into
EMC and create a new mailbox for an existing user
and link it to the new AD object I had just created. This always worked for me. Here it doesn't. When I do it that way, the new user mailbox does not get added to the GAL. If you go to
All Users they show up. I have read several articles about using cached mode and if I turn it off the user will show up. Unfortunately most of our employees are in the field for long periods of time so we need to run in cached mode.
The way the network manager wants them created (and this way works) is to create a new user mailbox for a
new user in EMC which also creates the AD object. Then I have to go back to AD and manually add the user to permissions groups, distro lists, add profile settings, etc... Very tedious and manual process.
Can someone help me understand why doing it my way, which I have done for years on other networks, is not working here? Since we are using cached mode do I have to create the user object and mailbox the way he does it?

I believe the way you are doing it and the way he is doing it is doing exactly the same thing as far as when it shows up in the GAL. The problem sounds like exactly what you said in that you are using cached mode which uses an Offline Address Book
(OAB). If you look in EMC under Organization Configuration/Mailbox/Offline Address Book, you will see the update schedule. What happens is when you create the account it shows up in the address book right away however it only shows up in the OAB
when that updater runs. Even after that is done, the outlook client needs to go out and download the OAB file, which happens 24 hours from the time it last downloaded the OAB. I'm not sure if there is a fix for your problem as it appears to be
by design. Perhaps your old company may have been running in online mode? You may want to look at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273/en-us for more details.
Q1: What is cached mode?
A1: Cached mode is the new default configuration for Outlook. It provides an experience that is similar to the offline configuration in earlier versions of Outlook. When you are running in cached mode, your Exchange mailbox is synchronized to a local
file (an .ost file), and the offline address list from your Exchange computer is synchronized to a collection of files (.oab files) on your client computer. Outlook directly accesses the .ost file and the .oab files on your hard disk instead of communicating
directly with your server or servers. Therefore, network communication between Outlook and Exchange is significantly reduced.
Q2: Why does cached mode generate an offline address book?
A2: The offline address book contains a set of all the properties of a user (such as e-mail addresses and names) that Outlook requires. With an offline address book, Outlook does not have to connect to the global catalog to resolve names, nor
does it have to open a person’s details record. Instead, Outlook easily obtains this information from the local offline address book.
Q5: How frequently is the offline address book updated on the Outlook client?
A5: If left constantly running, Outlook in cached mode automatically updates the offline address book on the client every 24 hours. The 24-hour time period is measured from the time that the offline address book was last downloaded successfully. For
example, if you complete an offline address book download at 09:00 today, Outlook will start the offline address book download the next day at approximately 09:00. Therefore, different people will receive updates at different, random times.
Note The default setting on the Exchange computer is to generate an offline address book differential file every morning at 04:00. For a change that is made in Active Directory to reach the client computer, the following events must occur:
The change must be picked up by the Exchange computer that generates the offline address book files. This can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "x."
The Outlook clients must download the offline address book updates every 24 hours. This update can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "y."
The update reaches the client machines x+y hours later. It would be rare for a client to ever experience a 48-hour delay or more unless there were some Active Directory or public folder replication issues.

Exchange Server 2013: incoming messages are not delivered into user mailboxes occasionally

Exchange Server 2013 CU1, two mailbox servers (DAG, only one mail database), two CAS servers (NLB cluster). Two Sendmail/CentOS-based SMTP relays route mail between Exchange servers and Internet (incoming mail is routed to NLB cluster name).
Usually mail flow is OK: messages are sent and received normally. However, I've got several complains from different users. They state that occasionally they don't receive messages that were sent to them from outside. Tomorrow morning I've decided to
investigate the issue.
So, we have a message sent from Gmail account that was not delivered in user mailbox. It was received and routed to Exchange by Sendmail host:
Jun 27 22:06:37 MX01 sendmail[12169]: r5RG6HC8012166: to=<USER_ADDRESS>, delay=00:00:19, xdelay=00:00:19, mailer=smtp, pri=124702, relay=NLB-FQDN [NLB-IP], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (<CAHgK_sjEkj41htuVsutMP3XhgR5RRDs8-EgSC-UfHoaiHWFj=A@mail.gmail.com>
[InternalId=13069585481819] Queued mail for delivery)
Running Get-MessageTrackingLog applet on the mailbox servers displayed the followed log entries for the message:
DB Server #1:
    22:11:18 HAREDIRECT
    22:11:18 RECEIVE
    22:11:18 AGENTINFO
DB Server #2:
    22:11:18 HARECEIVE
    22:12:44 HADISCARD
So, we can see that the message was placed into shadow queues, but was NOT delivered into mailbox (no DELIVER status entries). Also pay attention to the timing. Time on all the servers is in sync, but Sendmail timestamp is 22:06, and Exchange timestamps
are 5 minutes behind it.
Today a message sent to the same address from the same Google mailbox was received by Exchange and placed into user mailbox with no glitches.
We use Exchange antispam system activated on Exchange mailbox servers. Spam is never dropped silently. It is either returned to sender (SCL 9) or placed into quarantine mailbox (SCL 6 and above). I'm pretty sure that the lost message was not in the quarantine
mailbox this morning, and the sender didn't receive any NDRs.
Any ideas what to investigate next?

Hi,
Do you mean the emails are placed in the Shadow Redundancy queue?
Shadow Redundancy
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351027(v=exchg.150).aspx
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Archive user mailbox when the user database near to limit

Hello Dear,
I have deployed a exchange server 2013 in my organization with dag solution.Also I have deployed another exchange server 2013 with only mailbox role for archiving user mail box.Now want to create a rule or a retention policy which is like as :-
1.A user mailbox database size limit is 2 GB when mailbox size near to 1.5 GB mail will archive.
Please suggest me or show me the way how can I do this ?
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Samiul Haq

Hi There,
Please use this KB to configure retention policies
http://www.ntweekly.com/?p=9316
And use this one to configure archiving
http://www.ntweekly.com/?p=9339
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How to get list of Users[MailBoxes] in Exchange Server 2013 by using EWS Managed API

Hi all,
I need list of Users exists in my Exchange server 2013 , i.e Mail Box Users login name.
I was created Full Access permissions of all users to Admin user account, to access each user Mailbox programatically
i need the list of Mailboxes in exchange server .
MailBox mailbox = new MailBox("user");
Please share your ideas

Hi,
We can run the following command in Exchange Management Shell to get all user mailboxes name and export it to a .csv file:
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Select Name,Alias,RecipientTypeDetails | Export-Csv c:\Users.csv
If you want to retrieve the list of users by using EWS Managed API, I suggest you can ask a question in Exchange Development forum for more suggestion:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/threads
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User mailboxes have more server-side rule options then shared mailboxes?

I was hoping to set up some server-side rules to keep a shared mailbox clean. The goal was to have some rules to move incoming messages to specific folders based off words in the subject. I opened the shared mailbox in OWA and found the action
of moving the message to a folder was not available. At first I figured that's an action that's only available in a client-side rule. However, I then found that in my user mailbox that action is available server-side. It would appear there
are a number of other action that are available server side to user but not shared mailboxes.
Anybody else notice this? Is this a bug?
Single Exchange 2013 SP1 server - nothing fancy.

Hi,
I have a test in my environment using Exchange 2013. We can use two methods to create rules in OWA. When I open shared mailbox via OWA to create rules, only one way is possible. I recommend you use this way to create rules in OWA and check the result. Here
is the detailed steps for your reference.
Click Setting icon (on the right corner) -> Options -> organize email -> New
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