Could not open seen state for

[Ken Murchison]

T Reaves wrote:

>     Hello all.  I upgrade my SuSE from 8.2 to 9.1 today.  One of the big 
> headaches this has caused is my e-mail.  9.1 uses cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-79. 
>  After the upgrade several things are going wrong.
> 
> 1) all messages in my inbox are always reset to not read.  Here is what 
> is logged:
> Jun 27 19:58:44 stech imap[6215]: skiplist: invalid magic header: 
> /var/lib/imap/user/t/treaves^silverfieldstech^com.seen
> Jun 27 19:58:44 stech imap[6215]: DBERROR: opening 
> /var/lib/imap/user/t/treaves^silverfieldstech^com.seen: cyrusdb error
> Jun 27 19:58:44 stech imap[6215]: Could not open seen state for 
> treaves^silverfieldstech^com (System I/O error)
> Jun 27 19:58:44 stech imap[6215]: open: user 
> treaves^silverfieldstech^com opened INBOX

What version of Cyrus were you running previously?  My guess is that you 
were running a version in which the seen state used the 'flat' database 
backend rather than the new default 'skiplist' backend.  Try adding the 
following to imapd.conf:

seenstate_db: flat

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