Seen database issue

[Alain Spineux]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Shelley Waltz <shwaltz at cabm.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> The architecture of the old server is intel 32bit RHEL3 and the new server
> is intel 32bit RHEL5.  Any suggestions on what may be wrong is appreciated
> as this is the only issue I have in the transition and I need to move a
> large number of users to the new server without losing the seen
> information.
>
> I tried converting the skiplist db on the old server to various formats -
> berkeley flat and then back to skiplist on the new server, but the
> messages on the new server still all come up as not seen.
> thanks much S
>
> Shelley Waltz said:
>> I am migrating my users from cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-4 to cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2
>>
>> Moving the /var/spool/imap directories, and /var/lib/user/{}.seen
>> files to the new server and reconstructing works fine except that all the
>> mail shows up as "not read" on the new sever.
>>
>> The username.seen on both servers is skiplist.  What do I need to do to
>> have the seen preserved in the migration?
>>
>> No issues were mentioned in the upgrade documentation regarding a
>> migration
>> from 2.2 to 2.3 and skiplist.  Any help is appreciated.
>> thanks S

Do you have any error message ?
Are you sure you have restored your seen file in the good place  ?
If you you create a completely new user, is the seen working then ?


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