From: Rob Siemborski (no email)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2003 - 12:32:27 EDT
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> Where are the status flags currently stored in Cyrus? The cyrus.index
> file? The cyrus.cache file? I know the seen information is stored in a
> separate file outside the mailbox directory.
System Flags other than \Seen (and \Recent, which is only a pseudo-flag)
are stored in the cyrus.index file. The names of user flags are stored in
the cyrus.header file.
> In what cases would you lose the status flags of a message?
You'd lose them in the following situations
* If you decided to delete the cyrus.index file
* Atypical filesystem corruption (that is, data that was already synced
on the disk becomes corrupted)
* A bug in cyrus's index file writing routines (let's fix Cyrus then)
Cyrus goes to great lengths to do the "right thing" in the event of a
system crash at any given point, so at most you lose the most recent
action, but not any actions before it.
-Rob
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