Thank you Wil, this solved it. Otis -- Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ -- Tag. Search. Share.
--- Wil Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 10:52 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have Cyrus 2.2.6 and recently had a power-outtage. Since that > > > happened, I have been unable to mark my messages "as read". That > is, I > > > can mark them as read in my mail client, but as soon as I restart > the > > > client, the messages go back to unread state. I suspect > something got > > > corrupted on the server during the server crash, but I don't know > what. > > > > Maybe the seen database is corrupt. I guess > /var/lib/imap/user/o/otis.seen > > is skiplist so I don't know what the correct way is to recover. At > least > > you can try to convert it with cvt_cyrusdb to BDB and back to > skiplist > > again. > > I posted a question about recovering skiplist DBs a few weeks ago and > got a very informative answer about how to truncate the database to > allow it to cleanly recover. You might lose some of the recent seen > flags, but it's better than losing them all (especially if you have a > lot of folders, as I do). > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.cyrus/18840 > > Wil > -- > Wil Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc > * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * * > --- 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
