sieve vacation filter not working for one user

[Maria McKinley]

Maria McKinley wrote:
> Simon Matter wrote:
>>> Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>> Can anyone tell me where the file(s) with list of email addresses that
>>>>> have been sent a vacation reply lives in a debian installation? I 
>>>>> can't
>>>>> seem to find it.
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I think what you are looking for is deliver.db in $configdir. Don't 
>>>> know
>>>> on Debian but on my systems it's /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>> Thanks, I found it. Didn't answer my question though, since I can't read
>>> it. Wanted to see if my test email sent to a user on vacation was read,
>>> and entered into the database, but for some reason the vacation response
>>> didn't work, or if it didn't even get that far. Is it possible/likely
>>> that this could have been corrupted, and that is why I have a user whose
>>> vacation sieve doesn't work? It seems like this file must be used by all
>>> users. Is it used for anything besides vacations? What would happen if I
>>> deleted it?
>>
>> I'm not exactly an expert here... but IIRC deliver.db is also used to
>> detect duplicate deliveries and things like single instance storage may
>> therefore also use it.
>> But, removing it should not hurt much. It will get created again and 
>> maybe
>> some users will get vacation responses again because of it but nothing
>> serious should happen. Maybe you just rename it and check how it goes so
>> you can go back if there is need to.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
> 
> I tried changing the name. Cyrus remade the file, and it didn't seem to 
> cause any problems, but unfortunately, it didn't help either. 

Actually, don't try this at home. A few seconds after I sent this email, 
my mail server started freaking out about DBERRORs. I tried replacing 
the file, that didn't help. Tried restarting cyrus, it wouldn't shutdown 
properly, finally had to reboot the machine. And yes, the vacation 
problem still exists...

~m