Sam Varshavchik writes:

> Francis P. Ling writes:  
> 
>> This is becoming very annoying.   
>> 
>> 
>> For the third time since upgrading vpopmail (from 4.9.4 to 4.9.8) and 
>> sqwebmail (1.0.2 to 1.2.5), my users complained of their addressbook 
>> being wiped out.    
>> 
>> 
>> Sure enough, the whole sqwebmail-addressbook is gone from their Maildir. 
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
> 
> Nope.  There's nothing in the code that ever deletes the addressbook file. 
> The addressbook file is updated by creating a new addressbook file in tmp, 
> then renaming it on top of the new file. 

The funny thing is the "sqwebmail-addressbook" file is totally gone from the 
user's Maildir. That's very curious indeed ... 

 

> Perhaps your system periodically runs a cleanup script that attempts to 
> delete old mail from maildirs, but which also deletes the addressbook file 
> by mistake. 

Nope, the only cleaning stuff in the cron is the cleancache.pl script. 

 

> 
> -- 
> Sam   
> 
 

 

 

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