Thanks for clarifying this Ellie, I thought the two issues are actually related. And thanks for adding the mention to -G to the release notes.
Regards, Savvas Karagiannidis On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 3:22 AM ellie timoney <el...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 5:13 PM Lars Schimmer <l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at> > wrote: > > and on second run it did find a lot of mails with "reappending" messages. > > > Actually, this sounds like this bug: > https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2839 (fixed last week in > 3.0.11) > There is a Debian report for it too: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=933163 > > I guess we're going to see a lot of this here, as people start upgrading > older systems to the new Debian stable and getting Debian's 3.0.8 instead > of whatever they had before. > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Savvas Karagiannidis wrote: > > there was an issue when upgrading to 3.0.x from older versions (2.x). The > issue is this: > https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2208 > > Ellie explains the exact issues with old mail in the last comment before > closing the issue mentioned above and I'm surprised to not see any mention > of this (the -G parameter) in the 3.0 release notes and upgrade > instructions... > > > Oh, I'd forgotten about that! I'm going to add a note about this to the > reconstruct -G documentation as well as the upgrade notes. > > It is a different issue though: the impact of #2208 (since the crash was > fixed in 3.0.8, anyway) is being unable to replicate due to missing > GUID's. You need reconstruct with -G before upgrading if you plan to build > a new server and replicate your old store to it (which you will find out > when you try to replicate). But it won't affect in-place upgrades until > you try to replicate them somewhere later. > > #2839 is rather more annoying because it affects in-place upgrades and > copy-files-and-reconstruct upgrades! > > Cheers, > > ellie > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Savvas Karagiannidis wrote: > > Hi Lars, > there was an issue when upgrading to 3.0.x from older versions (2.x). The > issue is this: > https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2208 > > From my experience, the only way to safely upgrade to 3.0 was to run > reconstruct -G -V max on all mailboxes while still in the older version. > Ellie explains the exact issues with old mail in the last comment before > closing the issue mentioned above and I'm surprised to not see any mention > of this (the -G parameter) in the 3.0 release notes and upgrade > instructions... > You can still run reconstruct -G -V max on the new system with the latest > version but the result will probably be that these older messages will > appear as unread. > > > Regards, > Savvas Karagiannidis > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 5:13 PM Lars Schimmer <l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at> > wrote: > > Hi! > > Just upgraded my old debian cyrus 2.4.16-4+deb7u2 to cyrus 3.0.8-6. > I did use a new hardware system for this, copied over all mailbox, > sieve,.. data and did a recontruct. > > It seems the reconstruct needs a few uns to reconstruct our 100GB mail > archive (in ~120 mailboxes). > > I did a reconctruct -V max and it did not find all mails, I did run it > twice, and on second run it did find a lot of mails with "reappending" > messages. > > Also, after migration, some users did not seem to have a inbox, I needed > to "cm user.xcy" and copy mailbox data into it and recontruct manually. > (seems like those are new mailboxes and are not in the copied data of > main cyrus db). > > But some mailboxes were existent, but empty after the 2 reconstruct (and > quota) run, I did explicit run reconstruct -r -f user.xyyya on those. > To bad they got all mails as unseen. > > On the most accounts all worked fine, but all mails prior to sept 2011 > are set to unseen. > Seems like some change of dataformat, as I did upgrade in sept 2011 :-) > > Now I sit here and wait for more error reports from the users. > > > > MfG, > Lars Schimmer > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung > Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at > Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 > > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
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