[Dovecot] Broken system.

[Scott Silva]

on 11/21/2007 5:06 AM Marcelo Iturbe spake the following:
> Hello,
> 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 account via telnet, I still get the following:
> 
> telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK Dovecot ready.
> 110 login somelameuser somelamepass
> 110 OK Logged in.
> 111 select inbox
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags
> permitted.
> * 975604 EXISTS
> * 0 RECENT
> * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen.
> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1188426666] UIDs valid
> * OK [UIDNEXT 979500] Predicted next UID
> 111 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
> 
> So even though there are only 40,000 emails in /cur, dovecot still thinks
> that there are 9756304 emails.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks
> Marcelo
> 
Did you try and move/remove index files?


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