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..., I had an Inbox with 975,604 emails on ext3 filesystem. I keept getting dropped on the comand "copy 1:2000 inbox2", the syslog gave me an error message indicating "out of memory" problems. This despite the fact that the server has 800MB of ram free. Anyways, I asked if I could manuanlly move the files at the filesystem level or if that would mess up dovecot (break the GUIDs etc). I was informed that dovecot does not use GUIDs and that I could go ahead and move the emails at the shell level. So I did that, now the /cur folder only has 40,000 emails, but when I connect to the accou...