Mailbox 2.2GB insize cannot be opened

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B3rt

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On of my users has a mailbox which is 2.2GB in size, this mailbox cannot be opened anymore.
Squirrelmail and also thunderbird (imap) cannot read the file, thunderbird errors after a while with an error that the file is to large, squirrelmail simply does not show any mails at all.
The file is located in: /home/<username>/mail/<domainname>/<name_large_file>

There is no problem with file rights, if I replace the file with a smaller one with identical rights the mail works normally again.

How can I solve this without converting the whole server to dovecot?
 
Why wouldnt you want to switch to dovecot. Its alot better... lol
 
"mbox" mailboxes are a source of multiple problems; it's very very slow, concurrent access to different messages is impossible because there is only 1 lock, a corrupted message can destroy all of the messages, it's not friendly to read manually, problem with sizes (like yours) and so on.
Even if you don't want, for whatever reason, switch to Dovecot I suggest you switch to the Maildir format anyway.
 
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