Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:08 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Well, I have a brain-dead user (using Thunderbird 2.0.0.14) who just >> won't listen when I tell them not to try to move 5000+ messages at one >> time (or if deleting, bypass the Trash), and they managed to royally >> screw up their maildirs... >> > > maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes should help a lot with this. > > >> I have two problems... >> >> 1. The /tmp directory has 9+GB in it... can I just rm tmp/* on that >> directory without making this problem worse? >> > > Only part of Dovecot that writes to /tmp is deliver, and it keeps the > files there probably less than a microsecond (create file + unlink > immediately). > >
Same situation with dovecot - I tired to delete ~ 120 000 messages form "catch-all-possible-spam" mailbox using Thunderbird. Filter out messages older than 7 days was successfully. Thunderbird failed to delete them (locked up)... i got salted imap process, locked dovecot-uidlist file (dovecot-uidlist.lock) in maildir with /tmp full of new spam... as it continue to arrive (frquncy is aubout 2-3 messages per sec, server hosts ~500 domains.). dovecot v 1.0.12 Uldis
