Files in tmp directory

David Morsberger david at mmpcrofton.com
Sun Nov 29 20:02:27 EET 2020


Ping - anyone know how I should clean up my “mess”? :) 

> On Nov 26, 2020, at 7:42 PM, David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
> 
> I had to restore many thousands of dovecot emails from a crashed Mac Server to a new Ubuntu server. After completing I am noticing a few things that may be okay or may need to be fixed.
> 
> 1) a couple of mailboxes have a lot (one has 102462) emails in the tmp directory. The files do not have the standard Mairdir++ filename format. An example:
>      1581262582.M397740P72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com <http://1581262582.m397740p72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com/>  (missing the stuff at the end, ,S=,W=:2,S)
> 
> 2) I see files in the cur directory that do not have the Maildir++ format. An example:
>      1601287326.V810Ie80087M240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com <http://1601287326.v810ie80087m240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com/>:2,S. (do not have the ,S=,W= values and the second value, V810Ie80087M240104, is longer that the other file names)
> 
> 
> How do I get the emails in (1) out of tmp?
> 
> Do I need to convert the emails in (2)?
> 
> David 

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