Error message opening imap boxes

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Andreas Haase wrote:

> Hello,
>
> after doing some (probably silly) stuff, I get error messages when some of my 
> users are opening their imap boxes. The log file entries are:
>
> --- snip ---
> May 10 17:15:55 mail imapd[4925]: login: host.name[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] username 
> plaintext
> May 10 17:15:55 mail imapd[4925]: skiplist: invalid magic header: 
> /var/lib/imap/user/u/username.seen
> May 10 17:15:55 mail imapd[4925]: DBERROR: opening 
> /var/lib/imap/user/u/username.seen: cyrusdb error
> May 10 17:15:55 mail imapd[4925]: Could not open seen state for username 
> (System I/O error)
> May 10 17:15:55 mail imapd[4925]: open: user username opened INBOX
> --- snap ---
>
> So the user seems to get his mails correctly. Is there any way to get rid of 
> the messages without deleting /var/lib/imap/user/u/username.seen? A 
> reconstruct seems not to be the solution because after that the messages are 
> still there.

Is it really a skiplist? What does the file look like?

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