Anyone? I'd really appreciate a comment from someone more knowledgeable, 
before I start rm'ing stuff...

Simon, on 7/17/2007 8:40 AM, said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> Ok, I've been using courier-imap for quite a while and never had a 
> problem, but I guess its bound to happen sooner or later.
> 
> Server: Courier-imap 4.0.6 on Gentoo Linux
> Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 on Windows (XP Pro)
> 
> I have a lot of folders and messages (I subscribe to a lot of mail 
> lists), and was doing some cleaning up. I generally never mass delete 
> more than a few hundred messages at a time, but... well, I thought I had 
> selected a few thousand, but right after I hit delete, I noticed it 
> wasn't 3,000 I had selected, it was @ 30,000. Well, I decided to let it 
> go and see what happened, but Thunderbird kind of went into la-la land, 
> to the point I had to kill it, and now it does this every time I click 
> on the Trash folder.
> 
> I have already deleted the local cache files from the TBird profile, so 
> there is something wrong on the server side.
> 
> I don't have much experience manually manipulating maildirs, so would 
> appreciate comments...
> 
> What I was going to do was first delete the folder:
> 
> rm -rf /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir/.Trash
> 
> then once it is all gone, do:
> 
> maildirmake -f Trash /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir
> 
> Or is there some kind of maintenance I can do on the folder to rebuild it?
> 
> Thanks for any/all assistance...
> 

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