Can't mark messages as read after server crash

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Thank you Wil, this solved it.

Otis
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--- Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> 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
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