On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:12 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > I just noticed, that, when I move a message from INBOX to a folder in > Thunderbird (via IMAP), the file on the server sometimes remains in > both directories: > /var/spool/imap/user/mi/message. > and > /var/spool/imap/user/mi/folder/message. > The copies are a hardlink, so little space is wasted, but I'm > concerned about the toplevel (INBOX) directory having too many > entries... I thought, this is related to the folder (not) being > immediately "compacted", but even when I explicitly request a > compacting (in Thunderbird), the strangeness remains. Right now out of > the 35170 messages in my INBOX, 1219 are hardlinked to other > folders... >Is this normal? I'm using Cyrus imapd 2.4.11 on FreeBSD. Please, >advise. Thanks! If Delayed Expunge is enabled, then it is normal. Delayed expunge makes restore of lost messages easier, is a handy means of 'data retention', and helps to avoid I/O-explosions. If Delayed Expunge isn't enabled - then this seems odd. I wouldn't worry too much about the "too many entries" problem on a modern filesystem / kernel. At least so long as you aren't using nss_ldap to provide your cyrus user & group [that can be crazy].
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