Missing <user>.seen db files

[Eric Cunningham]

Hi list, I had a user report that their read message status was lost. I
recall having dealt with seen message db files in the past, but on my
current implementation (2.5 on FreeBSD 10.2), I'm not able to locate any
in or within my configdirectory, /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb. I
have /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/user/u/username.sub but not .seen.
Would they be located anywhere else or perhaps the seen functionality
is contained in another database file? Without per-user <user>.seen
files, how can 'seen' issues be dealt with for individual users? Thanks!

-Eric

[Bron Gondwana]

Hi Eric,

For the owner of the mailbox (or all users if shared seen is enabled),
the seen state is stored as a system flags in the cyrus.index file.
As for dealing with seen issues - you need to authenticate as that user
or use a tool to introspect the index file (like mbdump or my
index_uids.pl tool) to see the flags.
Bron.

Post by Eric Cunningham
Hi list, I had a user report that their read message status was
lost. I> recall having dealt with seen message db files in the past, but on my> current implementation (2.5 on FreeBSD 10.2), I'm not able to
locate any> in or within my configdirectory, /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb. I> have /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/user/u/username.sub but
not .seen.> Would they be located anywhere else or perhaps the seen
functionality> is contained in another database file? Without per-user <user>.seen
files, how can 'seen' issues be dealt with for individual
users? Thanks!>
-Eric
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