On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 09:26 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 09:08 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote: > > While investigating my earlier Sendmail confusion I noticed these files: > > > > # ll /var/lib/imap/db/ > > total 15952 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 16384 Jan 22 04:02 __db.001 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 663552 Jan 22 04:02 __db.002 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 98304 Jan 22 04:02 __db.003 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 22568960 Jan 22 04:02 __db.004 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 32768 Jan 22 04:02 __db.005 > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 64 Jan 22 04:02 log.0000000001 > > > > The date/time stamps suggest that these files were create by a cron job > > the day after I installed CentOS v4.2 and have not been modified since. > > > > I haven't done any explicit Cyrus configuration, and actually I don't have > > a clear idea of what mail-related functionality Cyrus actually provides. > > If it is in use at all on my system it is done as some aspect of the > > default CentOS4 installation. Those __db files are not owned by any RPM > > package, although the /var/lib/imap/db/ is owned by the cyrus-imapd > > package. > > > > Do I really need a 22MB empty database file on my system? > > I've got 'em too! And I just do evolution/thunderbird pop3 only. Must be > needed... until we discover them. Thanks, I had not! :-) > > I'm gonna move the directory away and see what happens. > > > <snip sig stuff> Well, moved the directory, repooted and both evolution and thunderbird continue to work in and out. But, I *don't* use imap, only pop-3. I have sendmail disabled. My server incoming is ISP's pop server and outbount is my ISP's SMTP server. YMMV -- Bill
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