different APPEND behavior v2.1.15 / v2.2.6

[Andrew J Caird]

Hello all,

I'm trying to use UW's mailutil to migrate mbox files to Cyrus.  When
migrating to v2.1.15 this worked perfectly; read/unread/answered states
were all transitioned from the mboxes to Cyrus.  When migrating to v2.2.6,
the states are not correct; in fact, the state of all of the messages in
the newly migrated folder seem to be set to the state of the last message
migrated.

For example, I have an mbox file called "/var/spool/mail/acaird" and a
Cyrus v2.2.6 server named after the star "azah".  /var/spool/mail/acaird
has 7 messages in it; messages 1, 3, and 7 have been Seen, and message 7
has been Answered.  Using mailutil like:
    mailutil copy -debug /var/spool/mail/acaird  \
       "{azah/novalidate-cert/authuser=admin/user=acaird}testfolder-1"
creates a new folder called "testfolder-1" on the Cyrus server and copies
the 7 messages into it.  On the v2.2.6 server, the client reports all of
the messages as having the state "Seen, Answered".

The output from mailutil and the telemetry logs after the login steps are
below.  It appears as though the state information is being correctly read
by mailutil and correctly received by Cyrus, but isn't being written to
the seen database correctly.  Performing this same operation on a Cyrus
v2.1.15 server produces the same results in the telemetry logs, but when
the mailbox is opened, the states are correct.

The differences between the two Cyrus servers, other than version, are:
                     v2.1.16      v2.2.6
altnamespace:          no          yes
seendb format:         flat        skiplist


Is this a known issue, or is there anything else I can do to gather
information to track this down?

Thanks for any help.
--
Andrew Caird




Output from mailutil, after the login steps:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
00000005 Create testfolder-1
00000005 OK Completed
00000006 APPEND testfolder-1 (\Seen) "14-Jul-2004 08:36:49 -0400" {637}
+ go ahead
 () "14-Jul-2004 08:37:08 -0400" {637}
+ go ahead
 (\Seen) "14-Jul-2004 08:37:19 -0400" {637}
+ go ahead
 () "14-Jul-2004 08:48:46 -0400" {635}
+ go ahead
 () "14-Jul-2004 08:49:02 -0400" {641}
+ go ahead
 () "14-Jul-2004 08:49:13 -0400" {641}
+ go ahead
 (\Seen \Answered) "14-Jul-2004 08:49:27 -0400" {641}
+ go ahead

00000006 OK [APPENDUID 1089815290 1:7] Completed
00000007 LOGOUT
* BYE LOGOUT received
00000007 OK Completed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The output from the telemetry logs on the Cyrus side for the same session
(with the message bodies and login steps removed for brevity) is:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<1089815290<00000005 Create testfolder-1
>1089815290>00000005 OK Completed
<1089815290<00000006 APPEND testfolder-1 (\Seen) "14-Jul-2004 08:36:49
-0400" {637}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< () "14-Jul-2004 08:37:08 -0400" {637}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< (\Seen) "14-Jul-2004 08:37:19 -0400" {637}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< () "14-Jul-2004 08:48:46 -0400" {635}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< () "14-Jul-2004 08:49:02 -0400" {641}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< () "14-Jul-2004 08:49:13 -0400" {641}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
<1089815290< (\Seen \Answered) "14-Jul-2004 08:49:27 -0400" {641}
>1089815290>+ go ahead
<1089815290<
>1089815290>00000006 OK [APPENDUID 1089815290 1:7] Completed
<1089815290<00000007 LOGOUT
>1089815290>* BYE LOGOUT received
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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