Shot in the dark here...haven't tried it myself so no promises. There's probably a much better way to do this but sometimes a little "brute force" helps.
Theoretical steps:
- Stop all mail processes - both SMTP and IMAP.
- Use "doveadm sync" to backup the user mailbox, e.g., doveadm backup -u user mdbox:/tmp/usermail
- Verify /tmp/usermail looks reasonable
- Move the user's mail store somewhere else, e.g. /tmp/useroldmail
- Move /tmp/usermail to the user's mailstore
- Verify file permissions are set correctly in the mailstore
- Start the mail processes...and test.
-- Daniel
On 4/3/2015 1:04 PM, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
Nobody any suggestions ?
On 02/04/15 10:09, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any change.
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On 02/04/2015 09:53 πμ, Urban Loesch wrote:
Did you "purged" the deleted mails for this user? On mdbox you must run "doveadm purge -u $USER" to whipe out any as deleted marked mails etc.
Details: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Purge
I use a nightly cronjob wor this.
Regards Urban
Am 01.04.2015 um 23:26 schrieb Alexandros Soumplis:
Hello,
I am using dovecot with mdbox+sis and I notice an ever increasing disk space usage since I converted mailboxes from Maildir to mdboxes. I have checked with a user and while it actually uses only 65K, his mdbox files on disk are more than 6G. The backup of his mailbox is just 64K. Any suggestions ?
Below are some relevant commands:
[root@mail ~]# doveadm quota get -u test Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 10135 31457280 0 User quota MESSAGE 186
0[root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/ 220 /mdboxes/test/mailboxes 6029348 /mdboxes/test/storage 6029592 /mdboxes/test/
[root@mail ~]# doveadm purge -u test [root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/ 220 /mdboxes/test/mailboxes 6029348 /mdboxes/test/storage 6029592 /mdboxes/test/
[root@mail ~]# doveadm backup -u test mdbox:/tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/ [root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/ 16 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/mailboxes 65540 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/storage 65568 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/