[cobalt-users] RAQ550 - Corrupt virtusertable file

[Pizza Box manager <cobalt-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Basically here is where I stand and cry for your help: on my Cobalt 550, 
for no reason as no one used anything other than the GUI, the file 
virtusertable in /etc/mail became corrupt. In the 100 sites we host, no 
user can now get email at an address that is not directly a real pop account.
Users trying to change an email account in the GUI started having the 
message that "an error occurred while trying to create an email server map 
file".
When I had a look I realized the file virtusertable was still 95 Kb long 
but contained only unreadable data.
After I emptied it we could use the GUI again.

My question is, there must still be aliases stored somewhere, as in the 
graphical (GUI) interface, we can see in each user account the aliases they 
chose, but the virtusertable file now only contains the 2 examples I 
created again when the GUI became usable.

Is it possible and how to recreate that file ?
I tried logging to a user account and hitting save in their email/alias 
list again, but nothing changes. If I add another alias, that one does get 
saved in the virtusertable file.

Any idea WHY this happened ?!
I read the instructions at 
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-May/091393.html bt they 
don't apply to me as my virtusertable does not contain the previous aliases.

Thanks a lot for your attention.