I’ve experienced this date issue on several mailboxes.

The problem is caused by uploading emails via IMAP. We do this a lot when migrating clients.

For example, we’ll upload locally stored emails from Outlook to the server using an IMAP connection.

A bug exists where the date of the emails uploaded is the same as the current date (of upload). From memory, the emails show the correct date in the headers and when viewing the message in the web interface, but the email list is wrong.

 

I think I still have an open ticket for this.

If you’re really unlucky you’ll hit the ~2GB GRP file size limit during an upload and strange things start to happen!

I believe my trouble began when I selected all the emails from 2017 and attempted to move them to the "old inbox" folder. My first attempt was through Thunderbird. My second was through the webmail interface. Same results.

Apparently the Mailbox Migration feature doesn’t suffer from this bug (so ST support tell me), but that doesn’t help my situation.

I’ve not tried moving lots of emails via webmail yet.

I’ll check the status of our ticket on this and let you know the latest shortly. 

To fix the issue with the wrong dates on emails, I was told that I need to do the following:

1. Stop the Smartermail system service.
2. Navigate to the folder _OLD and delete the mailbox.cfg file found here.
3. Repeat step 2 for any other folders showing duplication or incorrect dates.
4. Start the SmarterMail system service.
5. Reindex your account. This can be done from the primary domain admin account by clicking Domain Settings > Accounts then clicking the user and hitting [...] > Reindex

When you reindex, keep an eye on the status of the index in the Indexing logs. We've had some confusion lately about how the chunking occurs in Indexing and often when the session for indexing is marked as completed in the web interface it is still not finished because of the chunking behavior.
When testing a mailbox, you can move or mark a single email then go to the indexing logs. Once this gets indexed you should see something like this if it's done.
00:02:06.354 [XXXXXX] Indexed items: 8283 / 8283 (100%)
If it is not done you'll see something like
00:02:06.354 [XXXXXX] Indexed items: 7123 / 8283 (88%)

Before testing performance or search behavior it's important that the box has completely indexed all items. We recently made some changes to our logging to make this clearer. We've also internally batted the idea around to index immediately when something gets added to a folder but this a bigger change we'd have to make with a feature update later on. Other ideas could be somehow indicating during a search that the search will be incomplete because it has not fully indexed.

If you see search working but only up to a certain date, then this behavior could be behavior your seeing.

Matt, having just moved everything to a new sever and upgraded to the very latest version of 17, I am now trying to index my customer mailboxes, and upon attempting my first (and largest) folder, was told that Indexing was Disabled. Where do I go to re-enable indexing?

They might be referring to the Indexing service, found in the SysAdmin > Troubleshooting > Services section. You can also adjust indexing setting on the first tab of Troubleshooting. If you're seeing too much CPU during your initial wave of indexing after an update that requires it, then you can adjust the thread count to be a bit lower. If you are seeing too many user's in the Index queue during normal operations then it could mean your indexing threads is set too low.

That was it. Indexing had been turned off. I turned it on and it's begin queuing addresses. Let's see what happens. Thanks.

Is there a SmarterMail Knowledge Base article or anything I can read to understand Indexing better and with more detail? I don't want to just go through the motions and not understand this more fully.

I'm reindexing a customer who's email files are a little squirrely on the server, and see her in the Troubleshooting > Mailbox Indexing list, but have no other information than that. The accounts listed on this page show a hand / link when I mouse over them, but clicking does nothing. Was hoping for some kind of chart or progress report.