Seen Status

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Earl Shannon wrote:

> We've just completed moving accounts to new T3's in our SAN and
> have discovered a problem we not had doing this before. The seen
> status is gone and all the messages in the accounts appear as unread.
> We moved the seen status files.  Any ideas about what we have missed
> would be most helpful. Particularly about what we can do to get the
> seen files recognized and used.

The seen status is indexed by a unique identifier in the cyrus.header
file.  If you recreated the mailbox (i.e. did NOT copy the mailbox data
verbatim) then you will have lost the unique identifier that indexes the
seen state files.

-Rob

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