Is it possible?
total 13032 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Jan 30 10:44 __db.001 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 270336 Jan 30 10:44 __db.002 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 98304 Jan 30 10:44 __db.003 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 16064512 Jan 30 10:44 __db.004 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 24576 Jan 30 10:44 __db.005 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 553922 Jan 30 10:43 log.0000000002 -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 2003662 Jan 17 10:34 log.0000000001 rapmweb# ls -lt .. total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 512 Jan 30 10:43 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 512 Jan 17 10:50 db drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 512 Jan 17 10:50 socket drwxr-xr-x 3 cyrus mail 1024 Jan 17 10:50 deliverdb -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 16384 Sep 4 13:12 mailboxes.db drwxr-xr-x 28 cyrus mail 512 Jun 8 2001 quota drwxr-xr-x 28 cyrus mail 512 Jun 8 2001 user drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 512 Oct 29 2000 log drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus mail 512 Oct 29 2000 msg rapmweb# pwd /var/spool/imap/db rapmweb# My /var/spool/mail directory is smaller then /var/spool/imap: rapmweb# du -sk /var/spool/mail 111 /var/spool/mail rapmweb# du -sk /var/spool/imap 14057 /var/spool/imap And doing a 'strings' on __db.004 shows its empty: rapmweb# strings __db.002 0 default admin lrswipcda user.admin.sent-mail 0 default admin lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.admin 0 default cweberman lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.cweberman 0 default andy lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.andy- 0 default sysadmin lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.sysadmin. 0 default webmaster lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.webmaster 0 default sales lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.sales 0 default sec lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.sec 0 default help lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.help) 0 default info lrswipcda cyrus lrswipcda user.info 0 default cyrus lrswipcda user.cyrus /var/spool/imap/mailboxes.db rapmweb# strings __db.004 rapmweb# Seems a waste of 16meg for nothing ... no? System is Cyrus IMAP 2.0.16 ... Thanks ...