On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 09:33 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Hi. > > Every IMAP client I query my cyrus imapd 2.4.17 server with says I > have > ~4K messages in my INBOX. However when I do a listing of > /var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/ it shows almost 13K files. > > None of these include messages which have been deleted but not > expunged. I manually expunge my mailbox many times per day. > > If I'm understanding mbexamine's output correctly, I have files on > disk > that are not being displayed by mbexmine. My understanding of > mbexamine's output is that on a line formatted as such: > > 000001> UID:00089183 INT_DATE:[redacted] SENTDATE:[redacted] > SIZE:1537 > > that the 00089183 is the reference to the file on the spool in > /var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/89183. > > Is that correct? If so, I definitely have files on the disk which > are > not found in any "000001> UID" line from mbexamine. ~9600 of them. > That seems to make up the difference between what an IMAP client sees > and how many files are on disk. > > I also have multiple occurrences of the same "000001> UID:" and where > there are no matching files on the disk. Should that be possible? > > So how come the huge discrepancies and how do I reconcile them? No other thoughts on how I can reconcile this gross discrepancy? Ultimately I have an IMAP spool that is growing without bound due to messages continuing to live on the spool beyond their life in the index and getting orphaned. Cheers, b.
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