>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Gesker >Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:42 PM >To: courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Courier-imap] Large Subfolder Problem
>I have a user who has consolidated a large number of messages (25970) into one folder. >When I check the 'cur' directory or the subfolder all of the message appear to be there and intact. However, we can seem to open this folder using the >mail client (Thunderbird). >Any hints? >Thanks >Dennis Hi Dennis, I've had this problem as well. Thunderbird starts choking when more than a few thousand messages are there. Outlook 2003 or 2007 can handle this load however -- given enough time to download the headers. Outlook 2007 handles this type of situation quite well actually (Outlook 2003 was a bit unstable when handling this many messages). The max I've ever had to clean up was a bit over 50k after a particularly nasty joe job. If outlook is not available, write a script to split the directory in 3k messages each. Just do a maildirmake on say .foldername.$count and move 3k to .foldername.$count new/ and iterate until done. DON'T start spawning directories off of Maildir/ (INBOX.) and don't forget to add the new folders to ~/Maildir/courierimapsubscribed . If the user does not want the messages and you can determine a pattern to apply you can write a script to simply delete the files (or move them about) while the user is not logged on and you have verified that no courier-imap or courier-pop instances are running under that user name. When done, also delete the two "courier" files (courierimapkeywords and courierimapuiddb) that hold (mostly) ephemeral data so they will be reconstructed. Another, rather aggravating, way of solving the problem is to set your timeout WAY up, make certain thunder bird does not store any messages, nor automatically check for new mail. I find that Thunderbird will then fetch a few thousand messages, which can then be dealt with. Compress the folder, Then repeat and wait, deal with the next few thousand, etc. This is a VERY annoying way to solve a mail bomb though. I've had thunderbird max the number of connections for that ip and netblock with repeated connections. So I suspect you might have to play with the config editor before trying this out. HTH Sam S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
