[Dovecot] Message size incorrect?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:17 +0100, Tristan Woudenberg - Prism Mail
Solutions wrote:
> On Tue, January 16, 2007 16:39, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 11:00 +0100, Tristan Woudenberg - Prism Mail
> > Solutions wrote:
> >> There is quite a discrepancy in the rfc822.size reported by Dovecot and
> >> the actual space it takes up on my harddisk. I know there could be some
> >> overhead here from all the dovecot* and subscription list files in my
> >> imap
> >> folders, but like I stated in my email to the SquirrelMail plugin
> >> mailing
> >> list, about 1mb for a 4.3mb maildir mailbox might be a but much.
> >
> > RFC822.SIZE reports message's "virtual size" as it is sent to IMAP
> > clients, which means that if the maildir files contain LF-only linefeeds
> > (which is usually the case), the RFC822.SIZE increases the size by the
> > number of lines in the file (so each line ends with CRLF).
> >
> > That however only increases the size reported by the Squirrelmail
> > plugin. I don't know why it would report 1 MB less.
> >
> > How does Squirrelmail plugin's INBOX usage compare with "du -sh cur
> > new"? Do you have any files in tmp/ directories? Currently Dovecot never
> > cleans up the tmp/ directory. I guess I should add the code for that..
> 
> I already posted this on the Squirrelmail list, but the folder sizes
> plugin outputs this:

Yea, I noticed that. But what about "du -sh cur new", and what about
files in tmp? I'm guessing you've some leftover files in tmp.

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