<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>The answer to your question is that yes, UID appears to correlate with the message file name. </div><div>At a guess something appears significantly awry.</div><div><br></div><div>To resolve the immediate issue.</div><div>Have you tried create a separate mail user. Copy your existing message over via imap to the new folder. </div><div>Delete and expunge the original mailbox and recreate, recopy.</div><div><br></div><div>In the longer term I would be tempted to move to a newer version of cyrus or if you have the patience closely monitor the file-system to debug how this is occurring.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards </div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div>-----Original Message-----</div><div><b>From</b>: Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:%22Brian%20J.%20Murrell%22%20%3cbrian@interlinx.bc.ca%3e">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></div><div><b>To</b>: <a href="mailto:info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a></div><div><b>Subject</b>: Re: imap clients say i have 4K messages but spool has 12894 files</div><div><b>Date</b>: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:45:42 -0400</div><div><br></div><pre>On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 09:33 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>Hi.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Every IMAP client I query my cyrus imapd 2.4.17 server with says I</pre><pre>have</pre><pre>~4K messages in my INBOX. However when I do a listing of</pre><pre>/var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/ it shows almost 13K files.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>None of these include messages which have been deleted but not</pre><pre>expunged. I manually expunge my mailbox many times per day.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>If I'm understanding mbexamine's output correctly, I have files on</pre><pre>disk</pre><pre>that are not being displayed by mbexmine. My understanding of</pre><pre>mbexamine's output is that on a line formatted as such:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>000001> UID:00089183 INT_DATE:[redacted] SENTDATE:[redacted]</pre><pre>SIZE:1537 </pre><pre><br></pre><pre>that the 00089183 is the reference to the file on the spool in</pre><pre>/var/spool/imap/b/user/brian/89183.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Is that correct? If so, I definitely have files on the disk which</pre><pre>are</pre><pre>not found in any "000001> UID" line from mbexamine. ~9600 of them. </pre><pre>That seems to make up the difference between what an IMAP client sees</pre><pre>and how many files are on disk.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I also have multiple occurrences of the same "000001> UID:" and where</pre><pre>there are no matching files on the disk. Should that be possible?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>So how come the huge discrepancies and how do I reconcile them?</pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>No other thoughts on how I can reconcile this gross discrepancy?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Ultimately I have an IMAP spool that is growing without bound due to</pre><pre>messages continuing to live on the spool beyond their life in the index</pre><pre>and getting orphaned.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Cheers,</pre><pre>b.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>----</pre><pre>Cyrus Home Page: <a href="http://www.cyrusimap.org/">http://www.cyrusimap.org/</a></pre><pre>List Archives/Info: <a href="http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/">http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/</a></pre><pre>To Unsubscribe:</pre><pre><a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus</a></pre></body></html>