Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> 
> > On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg
> > > count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few
> > > years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2
> > > megabytes.
> > >
> > > Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory,
> > > so they are truly gone.
> > >
> > > 3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about
> > > 12 gigabytyes.  However, another folder which also has no expiry
> > > rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Difficult to say :-)
> > But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for
> > 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones
> > 2.1G, so well above 695000.
> > I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical
> > tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and
> > use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use
> > Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but
> > probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
> >
> > Cheers
> >   Michele
> >
> I may have found about 2.5 gigs worth, in a backup directory I had made 
> before installing TDE.  My script might be able to handle that as 
> incoming mail if I only move 5 or so at a time back 
> into /var/spool/mail/gene.  But mc, tha handiest way to do that is too 
> fast if the whole thing is selected.  So I'll see what I can do.  Do any 
> of our copy utils have an optional time delay between file copies, say 3 
> seconds so that kmail and my mailwatcher script would treat them as 
> normal incoming email?  I wouldn't care if it took a few hours.
> 
> Thanks Michele.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hi Gene!

Why do you use mbox instead of maildir?

Nik

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