Urgent help required

[Bron Gondwana]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:54:10AM +0100, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for submitting so many questions to the list, now I have a HUGE
> problem !
> 
> I did /usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -d -x -p default and it destroyed my *.seen
> (read/unread database) files !
> 
> I took the files from backup but cyrus doesn't accept them and shows all
> emails as unread (including read emails, and deleted emails) ???
> 
> It's really catastrophic, and I don't know how to make cyrus
> use/read/take the *.seen files copied from backups ?

Check the permissions on them.  It's more likely that ctl_mboxlist has
changed the header uniqueid.  You'll have better luck copying the
cyrus.header files from backup.  Just going to check the code now:

Hmm... I can't see it changing either seen OR headers, but headers are
more likely.

Bron.