This sounds like a mailbox which has expunged messages, but the space can not be reclaimed because more than one session has the mailbox open. The same thing happens with mbx format as well.
Try killing all the sessions that have the mailbox open, then open it in just one session. Another cause of size discrepancy, although probably not to the extent that you report, is the sort cache. You can safely delete .mixsortcache files; they will just be regenerated the next time that a sort or thread is done. Also, 2006k is old. The current UW version is 2007b (or 2007c in Alpine 2.0 with a minor bugfix in the SMTP client code). -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:13:37 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Imap-uw] mix formated inbox bloated > > > If anyone else out there is using the mix format, I've got an odd problem > on which I'd appreciate any input you could give. > > I've got an INBOX that *looks* ok, 'mailutil check ...' says it's OK, and > I can open it in clients via imapd (2006k.396) or directly with the > Cclient module. > > When I add up all the sizes of all the files (about 16 of them) in the > INBOX directory, I get about 160M. However, when I add up all the sizes > of all the messages via any client, I get about 87M. Also, if I use > mailutil to copy the INBOX to either mbx or unix format, I likewise get > about 87M (there are about 200 messages in the inbox if that has any > relevance). > > So there seems to be some 70M of extra stuff in my mix INBOX that isn't > actually part of the inbox. > > Are there files (or parts of files) that imapd should have cleaned up but > didn't? Is there a cleanup utility for this? or is something broke? > > > I was wondering if this was a fluke or a common problem, so I scanned a > bunch of inboxes. Out of about 3000 mix inboxes I found 15 where the gap > between the actual sizes of all the files and the size reported by the > clients was greater than 20M. So there must be something going on > somewhere... > > > Thanks for any insight you can offer. > _______________________________________________ > Imap-uw mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/_______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
