Veazer Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 One of my customers configured their email client to leave a copy of the messages on the server. Her inbox is now over 900 meg and 70K emails. As you can imagine, no client app can deal with it. Even lightweight webaccess apps like squirrel mail are choking. She has a copy of needed messages on her machine, can I just delete the contents of /mail/.user@domain_com/cur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veazer Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Yikes! This forum is dead. I went ahead and deleted the /mail/.user@domain_com/cur folder and all is well. It seems to be a safe way to delete the inbox. If anyone feels this is not the case, by all means post and let us know. I'm just hacking my way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_boo Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Errh, sorry I just read this thread.....had you instead mv -R /mail/.user@domain_com/cur /mail/.user@domain_com/~cur you could have backed it up if it would have barfed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veazer Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 Errh, sorry I just read this thread.....had you instead mv -R /mail/.user@domain_com/cur /mail/.user@domain_com/~cur you could have backed it up if it would have barfed. Sorry i didn't catch your reply earlier, i forgot to subscribe to my own thread. I actually did rename it with an ftp client prior to deletion, but I only did a few minutes of testing before I assumed all was well and went ahead and deleted it. The account could receive and send mail so I figured it was OK. So far, so good.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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