on 11/21/2007 5:06 AM Marcelo Iturbe spake the following:

Hello, I had an Inbox with 975,604 emails on ext3 filesystem. I keept getting dropped on the comand "copy 1:2000 inbox2", the syslog gave me an error message indicating "out of memory" problems. This despite the fact that the server has 800MB of ram free.

Anyways, I asked if I could manuanlly move the files at the filesystem level or if that would mess up dovecot (break the GUIDs etc). I was informed that dovecot does not use GUIDs and that I could go ahead and move the emails at the shell level.

So I did that, now the /cur folder only has 40,000 emails, but when I connect to the account via telnet, I still get the following:

telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK Dovecot ready. 110 login somelameuser somelamepass 110 OK Logged in. 111 select inbox
• FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
• OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
• 975604 EXISTS
• 0 RECENT
• OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen.
• OK [UIDVALIDITY 1188426666] UIDs valid
• OK [UIDNEXT 979500] Predicted next UID 111 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.

So even though there are only 40,000 emails in /cur, dovecot still thinks that there are 9756304 emails.

How can I fix this?

Thanks Marcelo

Did you try and move/remove index files?

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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:06 -0300, Marcelo Iturbe wrote:

So I did that, now the /cur folder only has 40,000 emails, but when I connect to the account via telnet, I still get the following: .. So even though there are only 40,000 emails in /cur, dovecot still thinks that there are 9756304 emails.

What filesystem do you use? Dovecot should have noticed that change automatically. Updating cur/ directory's mtime (touch cur) should cause a resync, if it wasn't updated for some reason.