A friend on my system (remotely hosted Plesk, FC3, Courier) has what seems to be an overloaded mailbox. He had a folder which suspected spam (SpamAssassin + Procmail) were going into and this contained about 50,000 messages (combination of heavy attack and not emptying frequently). As he couldn't delete the contents of the folder (his client, Thunderbird, kept dropping the connection) he deleted the whole folder. I think this has led to all the messages being in the Trash/Deleted folder which he now can't empty. His whole account has become unusable by either Thunderbird or Squirrelmail. "ls Maildir/.Trash/cur/ -la1 | wc -l" gives 66630 files and "ls Maildir/.Trash/tmp/ -la1 | wc -l" gives 72711 (new only has 3 in it).
Needless to say I'm not at all knowledgeable in Courier and mail in general so I've no idea what to do next. Can someone advise? Also I will be addressing the issue of the volume of spam to hopefully avoid this happening again , I had no idea this situation was developing! Many thanks, Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
