Larry,
I would agree that this is almost definitely due to multiple concurrent
accesses from the mail client. In my trials I have noticed that most of the
more modern email clients (specifically the Microsoft ones) open many
concurrent connections to the IMAP server.
How difficult would it be to set the server to flush the seen state
immediately? Even just to test with for a while. I don't mind loosing a
little performance in the short term to eliminate the problem.
Thanks for your help.
-Jeremy
On 3/10/01 7:56 AM, "Lawrence Greenfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The .../j/jbeker/jbeker.seen file is a database file (either flat or db3;
> Cyrus comes preconfigured to use flat) containing "mailbox unique ids ->
> uid range mappings", basically. The mailbox uniqueid is in the
> cyrus.header file inside the mailbox and is kept the same even when the
> mailbox is renamed (thus keeping seen state with the mailbox).
>
> There's also a timestamp kept of the last time that the mailbox has been
> selected, and messages are considered recent if they came after that last
> time.
>
> I've been trying to reproduce these sorts of problems using imtest and have
> thus far been unsuccessful in doing it consistently. If anyone can tell me
> how to reproduce this problem consistently I'd really appreciate it.
>
> I have a few vague ideas about why it happens; it should almost certainly
> involve multiple concurrent connections, and the database file isn't being
> refreshed as often as it should.
>
> This problem basically comes about because the Cyrus server doesn't treat
> seen state as important as other flag state and caches it in memory for
> longer, and multiple sessions might do funky things.
>
> Larry
>
> --On Tuesday, January 02, 2001 07:51:57 AM -0500 Jeremy Beker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been having a problem with 2.0.9 that I have read about in some
>> earlier messages on the list. Namely that sometimes (not always) new
>> messages arrive, but are already marked as read.
>> I have been trying to pin down the reasons, but it is still alluding
>> me. If I send myself a test message, and check my mail, it *always*
>> shows up as unread. But when I come in in the morning and check my mail,
>> all of the messages that have come in overnight are already marked as
>> read. These are the only two instances that I have been able to identify
>> a consistent behavior.
>> Could someone give me a quick explanation of how cyrus stores a
>> messages seen state? From what I have been able to gather, it is
>> stored in the /var/imap/j/jbeker/jbeker.seen file, but the format of that
>> file does not seem obvious (at least to me). If someone could give me
>> some pointers, I will try to get some better data.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Jeremy
>>
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