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

[Alain Spineux]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM,  <mahecha at jsums.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, all for your responses....
> I still have some questions, though:
>
> 1. under what conditions will cyrus delete or "hide" messages from the
> users' (and admins) sight.... if it does it at all?

if the expire annotation is set on the folder (man cyradm for more)

>
> 2. Ihave been running this cyrus for about 2 yrs now, and never done any
> maintenance; does cyrus takes care of its own?

Yes

> if not, what is suggested? I
> do backups every night, export the db to a txt files, etc. but nothing
> else...

At least keep multiple version of your mailbox.db using "ctl_mboxlist -d ".
Backup is mandatory on any system !
Google for "cyrus imap backup" to find more, also "kolab backup wiki"
could be helpful.


>
>
> Thanks, again
>>
>> 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.
>> --
>> Bron Gondwana
>> brong at fastmail.fm
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>



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