How to repair a broken seen state file

Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Mon Jul 7 09:55:05 EDT 2008


--On 7. Juli 2008 08:31:59 -0500 Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> 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.

That's to be expected.

>  Can I just remove the file, with
> no ill effects?

Yes, but of course all "seen" information is lost in that case.

>  Can I fix it somehow?

Simon Matter has posted a script to the list:

<http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2006-April/021522.html>

I've never used it.
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