problem with one user after a crash

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, David Lang wrote:

> I has my home mail server crash, and after the crash, one user (me) is unable to
> acess any folders.
>
> When I manually telnet to the IMAP port, I can login, I can list and run other
> commands, but as soon as I do a select of any folder (mine or any other shared
> folder) I get disconnected.
>
> Other users have no problems accessing the same folder.
>
> This is with Cyrus 2.2 on Ubuntu (I need to upgrade, but have not had the time
> to do so yet)
>
> Any suggestions on what may be wrong and how to diagnose this?

Check your syslog files, whichever one Cyrus is logging to.  I suspect 
you'll see something related to your "seen" file.

A corrupt seen file could be causing your problem.  Seen files are stored 
in {$configdir}/user/prefix/username.seen.  My seen file is:

   /var/spool/cyrus/config/user/m/morgan.seen

If it is corrupt, you may be able to repair it.  Seen files have been 
stored by default in Skiplist format for quite a while.  You can google 
get "skiplist.py", a script to fix corrupted Skiplist files, from:

   http://oss.netfarm.it/python-cyrus.php

Hope this helps!

 	Andy