Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 10 Apr 2015, at 21:55, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Why things happen is one of the great mysteries and joys of being a > sysadmin... > > As for cleaning up SIS, I believe the "doveadm purge" command takes care of > it. I have a daily cronjob which includes: > > #!/bin/sh > # Permanently expu

Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-05 Thread Alexandros Soumplis
Daniel thank you for the advice, I have done this exact procedure to clean up some space and I reduced the used space by more than 60% (huge gain!). Yet it is still a mystery why this happened first place and more important if it will occur again, time will tell. I have kept one mailbox out of

Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-03 Thread Daniel Miller
Shot in the dark here...haven't tried it myself so no promises. There's probably a much better way to do this but sometimes a little "brute force" helps. Theoretical steps: 1. Stop all mail processes - both SMTP and IMAP. 2. Use "doveadm sync" to backup the user mailbox, e.g., doveadm bac

Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-03 Thread Alexandros Soumplis
Nobody any suggestions ? On 02/04/15 10:09, Alexandros Soumplis wrote: Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any change. a. On 02/04/2015 09:53 πμ, Urban Loesch wrote: Did you "purged" the deleted mails for this user? On mdbox you must run "doveadm purge -u $USER"

Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-02 Thread Alexandros Soumplis
Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any change. a. On 02/04/2015 09:53 πμ, Urban Loesch wrote: Did you "purged" the deleted mails for this user? On mdbox you must run "doveadm purge -u $USER" to whipe out any as deleted marked mails etc. Details: http://wiki2.dove

Re: Disk space usage with mdbox

2015-04-01 Thread Urban Loesch
Did you "purged" the deleted mails for this user? On mdbox you must run "doveadm purge -u $USER" to whipe out any as deleted marked mails etc. Details: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Purge I use a nightly cronjob wor this. Regards Urban Am 01.04.2015 um 23:26 schrieb Alexandros Soumpli