On 01/11/2020 21:13 John Stoffel john@stoffel.org wrote:

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"Gionatan" == Gionatan Danti g.danti@assyoma.it writes:

Gionatan> Il 2020-11-01 13:23 John Stoffel ha scritto:

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How is your "mail_location" defined in your configuration? And what is your search term?

Gionatan> Hi, I just discovered having such strange .temp files on an Gionatan> old server of mine.

I honestly haven't a clue... I don't have these on my server at all.

Gionatan> In some folders I have hundred of such files, but they Gionatan> really are hardlinks to the same .temp file (for each Gionatan> folder), so they do not consume much space. These files Gionatan> seems much more common in the Trash folder, but they appear Gionatan> even in other folder.

I would probably just nuke these files, but maybe after confirming what their contents really is.

Gionatan> An example of a folder with 6 .temp files: Gionatan> [root@mail dbox-Mails]# ls -al Gionatan> /var/vmail/domain/user/dbox/mailboxes/INBOX/Trash/dbox-Mails Gionatan> drwxr-x---. 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 12:42 . Gionatan> drwxr-x---. 3 vmail vmail 4096 Mar 17 2020 .. Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 1 vmail vmail 512 Oct 29 09:45 dovecot.index Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 1 vmail vmail 392 Oct 28 13:59 dovecot.index.backup Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 1 vmail vmail 55296 Oct 31 12:42 dovecot.index.cache Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 1 vmail vmail 23536 Oct 31 12:42 dovecot.index.log Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602492703.P47358Q0M194142.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602494002.P50402Q0M898232.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602494013.P50446Q0M771524.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602494621.P51761Q0M119496.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602494745.P51954Q0M387071.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 6 vmail vmail 22215889 Oct 12 10:42 Gionatan> .temp.1602495419.P53185Q0M671512.hostname Gionatan> -rw-r-----. 1 vmail vmail 848909 Oct 29 21:12 u.1623

Gionatan> 6x 22M files = 128M... Gionatan> [root@mail dbox-Mails]# du -hscl .temp.160249* Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602492703.P47358Q0M194142.hostname Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602494002.P50402Q0M898232.hostname Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602494013.P50446Q0M771524.hostname Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602494621.P51761Q0M119496.hostname Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602494745.P51954Q0M387071.hostname Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602495419.P53185Q0M671512.hostname Gionatan> 128M total

Gionatan> ...but only 22M really consumed (1 file, 6 hardlinks) Gionatan> [root@mail dbox-Mails]# du -hsc .temp.160249* Gionatan> 22M .temp.1602492703.P47358Q0M194142.hostname Gionatan> 22M total

Gionatan> I never run doveadm altmove; moreover, these .tempo files Gionatan> are both old (>1 year) and new (~3 weeks ago). Below you can Gionatan> find the output from dovecot -n. Any ideas?

I really don't know, sorry! I'd have to got poke at the source to see how they're created and where. I don't use dbox, I use Maildir for my setup.

So I suspect (but I'm not sure!) that these are just leftovers from mailbox accesses which got left behind. Try googling for 'dovecot dbox temp files' and maybe that will help. Sorry!

John

Those files are most likely leftovers due to failed operations, for reasons like crashes.

Aki