FUD, fud-client

[Per Steinar Iversen]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:
> 
> > I noticed something silly though:
> >
> > After running this:
> >
> > $ fud-client localhost randomstring user.stens
> >
> > Then I get a brand new seen-file for "randomstring" :
> >
> > # ls  -la /var/lib/imap/user/r/randomstring.seen
> > -rw-------    1 cyrus    mail          144 Aug 13 14:19 /var/lib/imap/user/r/randomstring.seen
> 
> Well not great, but most people don't go around investigating seen state
> for bogus users.

These files consume diskspace. Call fud a sufficent number of times, each
time with a different name and eventually these files will consume all
available space. Also some filesystems, like ext2/3, have performance
problems with directories containing huge numbers of files.

> > Can these seen-files that does not belong to any real mailbox just be
> > removed by hand?
> 
> Sure.

Good.

-psi