Re: mailbox explosion

[Alan Eshelman <alan.eshelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there anything in here I can delete to get this mailbox to reindex 
or something? I really don't want to lose the contents!

ns1:/var/spool/mailbox/114/xxxxxx zzzzz# ls -la
total 8
drwxrwx---     5 mta  mail    170 23 Feb 08:59 .
drwxrwx---     3 mta  mail    102 22 Feb 11:36 ..
-rw-rw----     1 mta  mail     20 23 Feb 08:59 .mailboxlist
drwx------     4 mta  mail    136 28 Feb 08:31 Deleted Messages
drwxrwx---  1501 mta  mail  51034 28 Feb 12:05 in

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Alan Eshelman - IT Guy
Startly Technologies, LLC - d.b.a CE Software
http://www.startly.com

On Feb 28, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Alan Eshelman wrote:

> At some point this morning my spamchecking mailbox (the one i have SA 
> send it's captures to) freaked out and went from just over 1000 
> messages to several billion.
> http://www.startly.com/images/junk/wrong.jpg
>
> I suspected my mail client so I removed that IMAP account, quit, 
> relaunched, added the account again; now it says 0 messages in that 
> IMAP account and it isn't accumulating new messages from spam assassin 
> any longer. It's logging in OK but that's it.
>
> Where should I be looking for the problem? I need to get this back up 
> and working, the spam assassin captures need my probing eye on them! I 
> will be deleting the account through post.office and readding it but 
> i'm curious what could have caused this.
> --
> Alan Eshelman - IT Guy
> Startly Technologies, LLC - d.b.a CE Software
> http://www.startly.com
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