new messages flagged as read??

[Alain Spineux]

On 10/2/07, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
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> the old box used 3.0.2 - the new uses 4.2.
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> This mean you must upgrade all your berkley db file.
> You can use "file" command on all .db files in /var/lib/imap/ to see
> if they are berkley db
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> How can I do this?
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> and also look for cyrus.* files in /var/spool/imap/
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> 'file' tells me these just contain 'data'

Sorry the "*.seen" files are user specific and stored into /var/lib/spool/user/*

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> I do not think it's related to the mail reader as several users (if not all)
> have reported this problem with several different readers. Or do I
> misunderstand you here?
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> Your argument is good, but sometime doing crazy thing will give
> unexpected result and help to understand and later to solve problem.
> Also discus about the utility of something
> that take less than 5min to test ....
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> I only had one account to begin with, and that's got LOTS of mail, so moving
> it all to somewhere else will take ages. I'd rather try to fix it on the
> server if that's possible. After all - that's where I'll have to fix the
> other problems.
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> Can you try to copy (not move) all your emails from one existing account
> into
> this new account, remove any cyrus.*, run reconstruct and see what if
> the new is still working. Then try copying the cyrus.* and run
> reconstruct.
>
> I obviously cannot do this for all accounts on the box.
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> Does It solve the problem ?
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> I haven't tried. This mailbox is huge and it has lots of subfolders.
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> Do you have any idea
> how to fix this centrally?
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> You are working on a computer, a wonderful machine able to do a lot of
> work for you
> very quickly ! Teach it ! Script is your friend.
> But first find the solution.
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> Well - moving to a new mailbox may look like a solution, but a bad one,
> since that means I'll have to move the mail for 30 accounts, recreate
> mailboxes and move them back. I would guess someone have experienced
> upgrading from debian sarge to etch before and perhaps got the same
> problem...
>
> roy
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Alain Spineux
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