How to repair a broken seen state file

[Konrad Mauz]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:31:59AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> I'm seeing errors like this regularly in our messages log:
> 
>   Jul  4 11:43:37 castor imap[16398]: [ID 514311 local6.error] DBERROR: skiplist recovery: 058C should be INORDER
>   Jul  4 11:43:37 castor imap[16398]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR: opening /imap/conf/user/O/inqarts.seen: cyrusdb error
> 
> It's always for this one file.  All the others are fine.  It's a
> skiplist database.  The ownership is correct.  A reconstruct on the
> mailbox has no effect on the file.  Can I just remove the file, with
> no ill effects?  Can I fix it somehow?  We're running cyrus-imapd-2.3.8.
> 
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Hi Gary,

perheps the skiplist.py tool from

http://oss.netfarm.it/python-cyrus.php

can help you to restore the corrupted seen file.

Regards,

Konrad

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