imapd can't delete email

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edore

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Hi,

We use imapd as our imap deamon. But since yesterday we have a problem with deleting and fetching emails from 1 acc. in particularly.

We just can't delete emails and fetching takes alot more longer than any other acc.

the acc. doesn't uses a lot of space, just 2megabytes but stores alot of small emails.

Can anyone help out or point me to a direction since I can't find any thing to resolve the problem.

Kind regards.
Edore
 
Have you converted to Dovecot/Maildir?

If not, I highly recommend it.

Jeff
 
Yes, it's still in Beta. It works. It solves problems managing lots of small emails.

Even though it may not fix the problem, It's the first step I'd take in resolving it.

Jeff
 
I have the same problem right now. And it's so strange. When it first occured noticed that the user had consumed more disk space than allowed. So I increased the value and then managed to delete mails from his inbox, really strange.

Now it has occured again on the exact same email account. The user is not exceeding disk quota now though. The inbox is 20MB large and contains 150 messages. What's REALLY strange is that I'm able to create a new account under the same domain, copy the INBOX to the new email address and then access that without any problems.

I have the same symptom as edore, slow inbox and unable to delete messages. We haven't converted to Maildir yet.
 
If you're still using mbox (if you haven't converted to Dovecot/Maildir yet), then the problem is usually either a timeout because of a huge mailbox, or the drive itself is out of memory, or the rights on the mailbox file are wrong.

Jeff
 
Thanks for the answer,
I have checked the permissions and also copied the mailbox to another account (which then works) so it's not a permission problem nor a huge mailbox. I'm not sure what you mean by "the drive itself is out of memory", would it help if I kill every imapd process?

I would love to convert to Maildir but I'm not sure I dare when the "convertion" is still in beta.
 
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