Wesley Craig wrote, at 08/25/2008 10:45 PM: > I've seen this before with Thunderbird. As I recall, Thunderbird > requests a lengthy operation but times out (or fills a buffer?) before > getting a result back. It then tries the operation again, until the > mailbox is woefully full. Interesting. Aside from webmail, Thunderbird is indeed the only other client used to access this account. > To clean up, we typically calculate checksums on the files and find > duplicates that way. In this case, I can easily find the inodes that reference more than one file: ls -li /var/spool/imap/user/bob/folder | cut -b 1-8 | sort | uniq -d I was hoping to somehow leverage this information to delete the duplicates only, but haven't quite figured it out myself. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html