Dave schrieb:
I've got a large message folder (about 40G in 'cur') that I need to
empty to a more reasonable size. Oddly, my Thunderbird e-mail client
only sees about 2.4G of that, and has "looped" a few times. What I mean
is, I thought someone was cleaning the folder out, but Thunderbird
apparently was actually just looping back to 0 every 4 gigs and starting
to count up again Ha. But that's a sidenote. So, since Thunderbird
But it's a strange one.
I have some fairly big folders (>>10G) too but there is no problem at
all with TB 2.0.0.23.
apparently is not seeing all of the messages, what is the safest way to
delete the files straight from the 'cur' folder? IS that safe? Will I
mess up any of the dovecot indexes in any way??
Yes it is safe.
Dovecot has self healing abilities which will fix the index files.
Dave