On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Iain Hallam wrote:
maildir: out-of-disk-space failures apparently cause all kinds of problems, e.g. "Expunged message reappeared", "Duplicate file entry"? Does anyone know what's happening with Dovecot here and how to recover so that this user can see mail again?
Assuming you use Maildir format for storing this user's mails, based on your quote of the maildir todo message...
If you manage to add extra disk space, and access to mail is more important than e.g. losing message flags etc., then I'd say you can remove the dovecot.index / cache files for the maildirs affected. These would be regenerated the next time dovecot accesses the maildir. Could take a while tho, for that amount of mails..
HTH.. -- Maarten
