[Dovecot] deleting maildir files

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:11 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Timo Sirainen, on 7/17/2007 2:40 PM, said the following:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:34 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >>> Or just delete .Trash/cur and mkdir it back. That way UIDVALIDITY 
> >>> doesn't change (although I think TB is able to handle it, but at least 
> >>> Mail.app broke really badly last time I did that).
> 
> >> Hmmm... but will that take care of /tmp as well? 
> 
> > tmp should be empty usually.
> 
> >> drwx------   2 postfix postfix 32388568 Jul 17 12:04 tmp
> 
> > Looks like Courier has crashed in the middle of copying/saving if it has
> > this many files. :)
> 
> I know... so - I should delete it as well, then recreate it, same as 
> /cur?

Yea. Or I mean in both cases you can just delete the files inside the
directory, but I'm pretty sure rm tmp/* will give you an error. :)

> What about the courierimapuiddb file? (Also, sorry for asking 
> something about courier, but I've already asked on the courier list and 
> no one has responded yet)...

Courier's courierimapuiddb file is pretty much the same as
dovecot-uidlist file. You don't have to worry about it.

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