Hello,
I have an el-cheapo shared hosting account on Dreamhost, and have had it for a very long time.
For the most part everything usually works fairly well, considering I do keep a lot of folders, and mail, on some of my accounts.
They are running dovecot, but still don't have a response as to the version, or doveconf -n output yet.
My problem is, one of my most used folders, which was working fine up until a week or so ago, stopped loading the messages, and after some frustrating troubleshooting via email with people who don't listen very well, I finally got a tarball of this folder, and they are using maildir.
There are about 24,000 messages in there (non-zero-byte files). This number sounds about right. All other folders (including INBOX, Sent, etc) are still working fine.
The problem, though, is there are over 815,000 zero-byte-files in the cur directory, all showing as hardlinks (looks like maybe a whole bunch of duplicates for each of the real message files in the cur directory).
There are also 43 non-zero-byte message files in the new directory, and 1,515 of these zero-byte hardlinks (to message files in the new directory).
There are also no non-zero-byte message files in the tmp directory, but there are 52 of the hardlinks, linked to something in the new directory.
I've never seen any of these kinds of zero-byte files before on the one server I managed for a long time (not shared, just used for a single domain).
Anyone ever seen this before?
Would running:
doveadm index -u myuser *
or
doveadm force-resync -u myuser *
be appropriate commands to try to repair the damage (whatever it is)?
Any other commands I could suggest running?
Thanks. I know I haven't given much to go on.
Charles /*
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