On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Per Steinar Iversen wrote: > > > I noticed something silly though: > > > > After running this: > > > > $ fud-client localhost randomstring user.stens > > > > Then I get a brand new seen-file for "randomstring" : > > > > # ls -la /var/lib/imap/user/r/randomstring.seen > > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 144 Aug 13 14:19 > > /var/lib/imap/user/r/randomstring.seen > > Well not great, but most people don't go around investigating seen state > for bogus users.
These files consume diskspace. Call fud a sufficent number of times, each time with a different name and eventually these files will consume all available space. Also some filesystems, like ext2/3, have performance problems with directories containing huge numbers of files. > > Can these seen-files that does not belong to any real mailbox just be > > removed by hand? > > Sure. Good. -psi
