Problem using reconstruct

[John Wade]

Hi Nicola,

Sorry if I was not clear.  As far as I can tell, the problem only occurs 
if you run reconstruct as part of your upgrade process (which is not 
necessary, and based on this, very much not recommended)   Just upgrade 
and the index format is upgraded automatically when you access the 
mailbox. uidvalidity and flags are preserved.

Of course, I speak from ignorance having not looked at the code.  This 
is only based on our testing of upgrade techniques and what others 
emailed me of similar issues.  Perhaps someone more familiar with the 
code can comment.

John Wade



Nicola Ranaldo wrote:

>>Not sure if both servers have the same cyrus version, but we have seen
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>issues
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>>where reconstruct did not deal properly with the old format of the cyrus
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>files
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>>in the mailboxes when we ran it after converting from 2.0.16 to 2.2.3.
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>( I
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>>know others have hit this as well.)   I have not researched the code, but
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>I
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>>would guess that the code that updates the cyrus files to the new format
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>is not
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>>included in reconstruct.    The first time you access the mailboxes the
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>cyrus
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>>files get upgraded and then you can run reconstruct safely.  (This sounds
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>like
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>>the behavior you are experiencing.)  If you are not changing versions, I
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>have
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>>no idea.
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>I'm trasferring from 2.1.10 to 2.2.10, it could be possible the index file
>format is changed?
>Is there an utility to "hack" a cyrus.index file?
>It would be useful, for example, export and import the uidvalidity number,
>some of my users (an entire university) have thousands of messages and,
>sorry, most of them use pop3, so a uidvalidity change will result in a
>redownload of all messages.
>IMHO the code to deal with different version of cyrus index file should be
>sharable, in libcyrus.
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>Best Regards
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>    Nicola Ranaldo
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