Unknown code _ 249

I am trying to maintain our IMS 5.2 mailservers by hosting only current users in LDAP and their mailboxes. To achieve this I have:

1) Deleted the obsolete users from LDAP to ignore incoming email for them.

2) Ran the procedure "reconstruct -o > x.repair" to find orphaned email accounts (Found 2503 orphaned accounts).

3) Issued the command "mboxutil -d user/ab12345/INBOX" for 20 users to delete their mailbox.

After doing #3 I did another "reconstruct -o > x.repair2" and did a difference of the two output files. Several of the users deleted in the previous process (#3 above) showed again in the new list. When I issued the "mboxutil -d user/ab12345/INBOX" command again I get the error "Unknown code _ 249". We are currently using iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002) in the Direct LDAP mode. I should also note we did a conversion from NMS 4.15 to IMS 5.2 in February, 2002, and have seen no problems in the interim.

In researching a little further I did a "hashdir ab12345" which returned the directory which was d4/47. The "47" directory was removed by the "mboxutil -d" command.

I was expecting the deleted mailboxes not to show on subsequent "reconstruct -o" runs.

Have I missed a step in the deletion of the mailboxes for these users?

[1319 byte] By [708533] at [2007-11-25 8:40:34]
# 1

The solution to this is to get at least hotfix1.08 and issue:

reconstruct -m

then do the deletes:

mboxutil -d user/usermailbox/INBOX

If a following reconstruct -o is issued, the orginal number less the number of deletes will be the result of a subsequent reconstruct -o. Thanks to Sun Engineering for their support.

708533 at 2007-7-1 15:18:18 > top of Java-index,E-Mail, Calendar, & Collaboration,Sun Java System Messaging Server...