Hi Philip,
Phillip Neumann wrote:
when i connect with my IMAP client to the server, i see my messages. All are marked as unreaded. So when i click one mail, it gets in the readed state. Thats ok. Now i disconnect, and connect again, and message is unread again... I cannot distiguish which messages are new and wich are old... :-(
another thing is what i see in the logs very often:
Dec 14 15:29:23 www imaps[90354]: Could not open seen state for bob (System I/O error)
Dec 14 15:29:32 www imaps[90354]: DBERROR: skiplist recovery /var/imap/user/b/bob.seen: ADD at 1628 exists
Dec 14 15:29:32 www imaps[90354]: DBERROR: opening /var/imap/user/b/bob.seen: cyrusdb error
Your problem here is that the 'seen' database, which keeps tracks for you which emails you have already read, has become corrupted. The easiest thing you could do would be to simply stop cyrus, remove the file /var/imap/user/b/bob.seen completely, and start cyrus again. It will cause cyrus to create a new database and afterwards will keep proper track again.
The reason your database got corrupted could for instance be that the /var-filesystem become full sometime ago: this is what caused a lot of our seen-databases to become corrupt.
If there is a lot of information in your seen-database you could also attempt to 'repair' the database by removing the corrupt transaction at the end. We did this and it works fine but is a bit awkward. For more information, please see e.g.
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=19536
Regards, Paul Boven. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
