dovecot - Aug 2006 - .imap.index.data Files

Hi,

 

We recently had a mail storm which resulted in many tens of thousands of
e-mails being delivered to each of 4 users in just 5 minutes.

This was quickly resolved.

However, one more savvy user though he could use the webmail (squirrelmail)
to delete the e-mail without downloading it.  He gave up on the idea though.

I, however, removed the mail directly from the server file system.

 

The problem now is that he has a .imap.index.data file of over 250MB!

 

I have asked him to login again and view all the directories, I even sent
him another test and asked him to delete this via webmail.

 

None of this had any effect on the file.

 

I thought the indexes were rebuilt with the deletion of a message?

 

Any ideas?

 

Nigel

 

 

 



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On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 11:10 +0100, Nigel Cox wrote:
> The problem now is that he has a .imap.index.data file of over 250MB!
You can just remove the .imap.index* files then.
> I thought the indexes were rebuilt with the deletion of a message?
Yes, it should have.

Anyway, you're running v0.99.x which is no longer updated, and all this
code has been rewritten in 1.0rc versions.
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