Re: [SM-USERS] preferences and signature are lost updating sm version!?

[Jonathan A. <ja...@ce...>]

Hello Mat=EDas,
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, Mat=EDas L=F3pez Bergero wrote...

>>> I'm updating the version of squirrelmail, and I haved see, that
>>> the preferences and the signature of the users are lost wen login
>>> in the new version. Is there a way to prevent thist to happend?

>> How did you upgrade the version you had? The user preferences,
>> signatures, and addressbook items are stored (by default) in the
>> squirrelmail/data directory, unless you're using a database storage
>> system. If you just deleted the old files, and installed the new
>> ones, that'd be where they went.

> I have both versions now, but in separated directories. Wen I'm
> using the old version I can see the sig and preferences files:

Okay, so you have two versions installed, and they are both looking at
the same data files?

> sh-2.04# pwd
> /webmail/data
> sh-2.04# ls -l user.*
> -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        123 Nov 28 15:44 user.2002.cal
> -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        272 Oct 18 14:39 user.abook
> -rw-------    1 apache   apache       1629 Nov 26 18:02 user.pref
> -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        192 Sep  9 14:29 user.sig
> -rw-------    1 apache   apache         98 Sep 16 16:42 user.words

> But wen I login in the newer version, this files desapere...but the=20
> others stay.

> sh-2.04# ls -l user.*
> -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        123 Nov 28 15:44 user.2002.cal
> -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache        272 Oct 18 14:39 user.abook
> -rw-------    1 apache   apache         98 Sep 16 16:42 user.words

> And the most extrage thing is that wen I login in the older version,
> the files user.sig and user.pref appear again. It's sounds crazy but
> it's happening. I don't undestand it, I hope you do.

I cannot seem to replicate the issue at all. I'm running the
1.2.10[cvs] version though, so we may have changed some code somewhere
between the releases that may have fixed it, although I still cannot
work out why we'd delete the preferences files. There is no code to do
such a thing.

--=20
Jonathan Angliss
(ja...@ce...)