imap clients say i have 4K messages but spool has 12894 files

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 6/4/20 7:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 19:35 -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> Trying running 'unexpunge -l' on the mailbox in question.
> 
> This avenue has already been explored earlier in this thread:
> 
> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2020-May/041258.html
> 
> To save the effort of re-reading the message:
> 
> # sudo -u cyrus bash -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/unexpunge -l user.brian"
> [nothing returned]
> 
> So this is looking more like a "bad accounting" problem than something
> typically operational.
> 
> But how to reconcile it?
> 
> It seems to me that a process of comparing what's in the index to
> what's on disk to account for the orphans is needed.  I just don't know
> what that process is.  I probably just don't know the toolset well
> enough to know which tools to apply and how.  mbexamine seems a
> candidate but I'm not sure how to interpret it's output to this task.
> Or maybe there other/better tools?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Have you looked in some of the orphaned messages to see if they are 
emails you have deleted before? My thought would be to move these 
orphaned messages out of /var/spool/imap/b/user/brian . Then delete and 
expunge a few messages using your mail client and see if they are also 
removed from /var/spool/imap/b/user/brian





> Cheers,
> b.
> 
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