With this rpm, you should usually find backups of your mailboxes.db in /var/lib/imap/backup/. If you don't have them, for any reason, you can recreate it like this. Note: The scripts doesn't care with different hashing schemes of the mailspool. Adjust as needed! And please, check the permissions mailboxes.db after creating it. #!/bin/sh # # stop cyrus-imapd service cyrus-imapd stop # backup existing mailboxes.db mv /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db.$$ find /var/spool/imap/?/user -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 | \ while read i; do echo $(basename $i) echo "user.$i<\t>default<\t>$i<\t>lrswipcda<\t>cyrus<\t>lrswipcda" >> /tmp/newmboxlist.txt done # we have everyone's base directory in /tmp/newmboxlist.txt, now we # import the new list /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_mboxlist -u