annotations.db again

[T. Ribbrock]

Hi all,

after not having had any problems for almost two months, we were moving
some largish quantities of mail around on the server (also, our number of
users has increased - some users with large mailboxes were added),
promptly resulting in a corrupted annotations.db again. This happened
several times even, during the past few days.

One thing I noticed, though, was an oddity of the "save_annotations"
script that was at one point offered as emergency workaround in issue840.
This script flagged some corruption, but when I used the "check" command
in that script manually (basically just "cvt_cyrusdb"), I noticed that
this command would work without failure if I ran it as root, while it
would fail if run as kolab-r. Does anybody know why this is? I've checked
all permissions on the directories in question, so that should not be it.

Cheerio,

Thomas

P.S.: Yes, I did just notice that save-annotations.sh is deprecated and I
will replace it with skiplistsafe.sh a.s.a.p. - but I'm still curious.