Hi Brian, The answer to your question is that yes, UID appears to correlate with the message file name. At a guess something appears significantly awry.
To resolve the immediate issue. Have you tried create a separate mail user. Copy your existing message over via imap to the new folder. Delete and expunge the original mailbox and recreate, recopy. In the longer term I would be tempted to move to a newer version of cyrus or if you have the patience closely monitor the file-system to debug how this is occurring. Kind Regards Ian -----Original Message----- From: Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: imap clients say i have 4K messages but spool has 12894 files Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:45:42 -0400 On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 09:33 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: Hi. Every IMAP client I query my cyrus imapd 2.4.17 server with says Ihave~4K messages in my INBOX. However when I do a listing of/var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/ it shows almost 13K files. None of these include messages which have been deleted but notexpunged. I manually expunge my mailbox many times per day. If I'm understanding mbexamine's output correctly, I have files ondiskthat are not being displayed by mbexmine. My understanding ofmbexamine's output is that on a line formatted as such: 000001> UID:00089183 INT_DATE:[redacted] SENTDATE:[redacted]SIZE:1537 that the 00089183 is the reference to the file on the spool in/var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/89183. Is that correct? If so, I definitely have files on the disk whicharenot found in any "000001> UID" line from mbexamine. ~9600 of them. That seems to make up the difference between what an IMAP client seesand how many files are on disk. I also have multiple occurrences of the same "000001> UID:" and wherethere are no matching files on the disk. Should that be possible? So how come the huge discrepancies and how do I reconcile them? No other thoughts on how I can reconcile this gross discrepancy? Ultimately I have an IMAP spool that is growing without bound due tomessages continuing to live on the spool beyond their life in the indexand getting orphaned. Cheers,b. ----Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
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