Sometimes, Zimbra email server may response very slow.
Reindexing all the mailboxes may solve this.
Run the following shell script as zimbra user.
<code>
#!/bin/bash # Get list of mail accounts and reindex each one for i in `zmprov -l gaa -s server.yourdomain.com` do echo -n "Reindexing $i" # Start reindexing zmprov rim $i start >/dev/null # Check if the rendix is still running for this account while [ `zmprov rim $i status|wc -l` != 1 ] do # Sleep for 2 seconds before checking status again echo -n . && sleep 2 done echo . done
</code>
To reindex a particular user’s mailbox.
run this as zimbra user.
# su - zimbra # zmprov rim username start # zmprov rim username status
Thanks to the following links.
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/12325-re-index-mailboxes.html
http://pario.no/2008/02/02/reindexing-a-zimbra-mailbox/
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Hi Shrinivasan,
A great and helpful blog.
Presently my organization is suffering from the same issues. I managed to fix few mailboxes with the help of this tutorial.
But recently more and more users are raising the same issues with me. Is there a easy way to re-index all mailboxes at once or in the chunks of 50 mailboxes at one time.
There are at least 500 users in my company. So I believe it would take lot of time and might also cause server load to increase significantly.
Please can you suggest what can be done.
Thanks,
Makarand Maha.
Hi Hakarand.
I know it could be late now, but what i have done on my environment(1800+ mailboxes): Did the reindex based on the starting letter of the mailboxes. It is just a matter of adding a grep after the zmprov -l gaa:
`zmprov -l gaa -s server.yourdomain.com| grep “^a”`
After that, change a to b, c, d and you will not index your entire domain.