Files in tmp directory

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Sun Nov 29 23:09:12 EET 2020


Not sure if this actually has any impact, do you get an error?

Aki

> On 29/11/2020 20:02 David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
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> Ping - anyone know how I should clean up my “mess”? :) 
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> > On Nov 26, 2020, at 7:42 PM, David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
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> > 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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