I'm running dovecot-1.0.9 on Gentoo Linux.
I recently observed a large increase in disk usage on this dedicated
mailserver. I attribute it to high spam traffic and/or large attachments
for legit email retained on the server.
How can I run a command equivalent to an IMAP client's 'Compact Folder'
I have some (Thunderbird client, dovecot-1.0.13, Maildir) users who get an
appalling amount of spam-with-attachment, and it's causing backups to take
an inordinate amount of time.
I'll implement some quota and server-side spam management when I go to
dovecot-1.1, but in the meantime:
What is the
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:19:48 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> If you have a *TON* of messages in those folders (i.e. several
> thousand), your shell may complain that there are too many arguments
> to the rm command. If that happens, these may be better commands to
> delete them:
>
> find /home/use
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:07:36 +0200, Alexander Prinsier wrote:
> Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
>> Any thoughts on a variant using find -name that could safely iterate over
>> /home/*/Maildir for all users? Otherwise I would script it in python.
>
> What about:
>
> find /home/
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:25:31 -0400, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> find /home/*/Maildir/{.Junk,.Trash}/cur -type d
My mistake, that only finds .Junk folders.
I just got my preferred postfix+dovecot(-1.1.1) configuration working on
Ubuntu 8.04 server. Users and Maildirs migrated, etc.
I wasn't seeing inbound mail (in the email client) until I set:
sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
Which I hadn't needed in the previous server's main.cf
I have
FWIW, I used imapsync for the data migrations of a) an old sendmail server
with mbox format to a new server running postfix+dovecot, and b) and old
and busted Microsoft SBS2000 Exchange instance to a new server running
postfix+dovecot.
Worked well in both cases, and the process left the original
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