On Wed, November 4, 2009 14:53, James B. Byrne wrote: > > Since early today I am experiencing the situation where all but a > very few folder in my imap account have associated hrefs generated > for them when the folders are displayed in the left_main frame. > This problem seems to affect only my account. I have had one other > user sign on to squirrelmail and their folders are linked as > expected. I discovered from looking in the maillog file that my cycrus-imap user.seen database was corrupted. I followed the instructions found at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.cyrus/18840, recovered the database, and now SM is working for me. Briefly, the procedure is: locate the bad record in the seen database, given as a hex number in the maillog entry: Nov 4 16:24:58 inet07 imap[10864]: DBERROR: skiplist recovery /var/lib/imap/user/b/byrnejb.seen: ADD at AFB8 exists and convert the hex value to decimal: xAFB8 = d44984. Next, disconnect all MUAs connected to the problem user account. Now recover the old database to the point of corruption. Log onto the imap host as root. # cd /var/lib/imap/user/b Use dd to copy the old seen db up to the point of corruption: # dd if=byrnejb.seen of=byrnejb.seen.fixed bs=1 count=44984 Copy the recovered DB over the corrupted one. # mv byrnejb.seen.fixed byrnejb.seen Set the ownership and permissions so that the imap server can open and modify the database. # chown cyrus:mail byrnejb.seen The DB is now recovered. Connect to the mail account from SquirrelMail. Squirrelmail now handles the folders as expected. Interestingly enough, ThunderBird allowed me to open every folder and all email notwithstanding that the DB was corrupted. What twigged me to the idea that it might be a server error is that all the messages in every folder were set to unseen and marking them to seen did not permanently alter their status. Every time I opened a previously visited folder all the messages I had just marked as seen were in unseen status again. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
