Hello,
There is a very old server running a very old courier-imap:
Courier-IMAP 4.10.0/i386-portbld-freebsd8.1/Sun Feb 5 20:50:23 PST 2012
Recently, an account on this server attempted to delete ~120GB of mail piled up
in the inbox via an iPhone mail client.
This resulted in a massive copy of data to a .Deleted\ Messages/ maildir
directory.
As this proceeded to use all free disk space, the IMAP server was shutdown to
prevent system crash.
Now, there is a lot of mail stuck in the .Deleted\ Messages/tmp/ directory:
# du -shc -I .. -I . .maildir/.Deleted\ Messages/*
4.9M .maildir/.Deleted Messages/courierimapkeywords
4.0k .maildir/.Deleted Messages/courierimapuiddb
5.8M .maildir/.Deleted Messages/cur
0B .maildir/.Deleted Messages/maildirfolder
4.0k .maildir/.Deleted Messages/new
101G .maildir/.Deleted Messages/tmp
101G total
First I tried to rm this directory and restart sourier-imap, but the next time
the acct client connects, it begins filling this directory again.
I also tried to delete this with a python imaplib script, but the mail in the
tmp/ dir is not recognized by imaplib.
Is there some courier-imap admin utility that can clear/expunge this tmp/ dir?
Is there any method short of deleting the acct and starting over that will
cause these messages to be purged from the tmp/ directory to cur/ where they
could be deleted and expunged?
I'm about to shut down courier-imap again, since the free disk space is about
to be depleted.
Any help is appreciated...
John A
2023-11-06
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