are these error messages severe? and how to fix them?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:07:55 +0200 (CEST), "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at invoca.ch> said:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM,  <mahecha at jsums.edu> wrote:
> >> greetings all.
> >>
> >> This morning a user called me saying that he was using reading his email
> >> (via squirrelmail) in one computer, then he logged out, and some time
> >> later
> >> went to another computer open squirrelmail, and his mail was gone....
> >>
> >> I checked directly in the mailstore and he had only a couple of
> >> messages,
> >> but he assures me that he did not delete anything....
> >>
> >> After some search on the log files, I found something like this:
> >>
> >> May 19 09:56:05 ccaix imaps[8619]: skiplist: recovered
> >> /var/lib/imap/user/C/user^name.seen (3 records, 7316 bytes) in 0 seconds
> 
> I think skiplist files are always "recovered" when they are opened. So
> that is not a sign of anything wrong.

Yeah, all that means is that the timestamp of the skiplist file is earlier
than the timestamp of the last time cyrus was started.  A "recovery" just
goes through the file and makes sure that all the pointers are correct.

That message is harmless.

Bron.
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