Francis P. Ling writes:
> 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.
And this happens with the particular version of sqwebmail+vpopmail. My users
noted that in the older version, this does not happen at all.
Weird still, one of that users who lost the address book said after the
first reported loss, another incident occured, but this time, only 2 entries
were left in the address book, out of many entries. I treat this as a
separate case since the file "sqwebmail-addressbook" is still there.
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