dovecot - Feb 2010 - Purging a large folder... anything I need to be careful of?

I've got a large message folder (about 40G in 'cur') that I need to 
empty to a more reasonable size.  Oddly, my Thunderbird e-mail client 
only sees about 2.4G of that, and has "looped" a few times.  What I
mean
is, I thought someone was cleaning the folder out, but Thunderbird 
apparently was actually just looping back to 0 every 4 gigs and starting 
to count up again  Ha.  But that's a sidenote.  So, since Thunderbird 
apparently is not seeing all of the messages, what is the safest way to 
delete the files straight from the 'cur' folder?  IS that safe?  Will I 
mess up any of the dovecot indexes in any way??
Dave

Dave schrieb:
> I've got a large message folder (about 40G in 'cur') that I
need to
> empty to a more reasonable size.  Oddly, my Thunderbird e-mail client 
> only sees about 2.4G of that, and has "looped" a few times.  What
I mean
> is, I thought someone was cleaning the folder out, but Thunderbird 
> apparently was actually just looping back to 0 every 4 gigs and starting 
> to count up again  Ha.  But that's a sidenote.  So, since Thunderbird 
But it's a strange one.
I have some fairly big folders (>>10G) too but there is no problem at 
all with TB 2.0.0.23.
> apparently is not seeing all of the messages, what is the safest way to 
> delete the files straight from the 'cur' folder?  IS that safe? 
Will I
> mess up any of the dovecot indexes in any way??
Yes it is safe.
Dovecot has self healing abilities which will fix the index files.
> Dave
>