My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 August 2015 22:58:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
You have, I assume, checked all trash cans? Not because they ought to be there, or indeed have any right to be there, but becauise, let us hope, they are *some*where.
Lisi
You have, I assume, checked all trash cans? Not because they ought to be there, or indeed have any right to be there, but becauise, let us hope, they are *some*where.
more than trashcans, i d also try an updatedb ( mlocate/slocate first configured to find everything everywhere ) and then a locate for a pattern included in those file names, hopes this help, good luck with that.
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On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Difficult to say :-) But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones 2.1G, so well above 695000. I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
Cheers Michele
On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Difficult to say :-) But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones 2.1G, so well above 695000. I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
Cheers Michele
I may have found about 2.5 gigs worth, in a backup directory I had made before installing TDE. My script might be able to handle that as incoming mail if I only move 5 or so at a time back into /var/spool/mail/gene. But mc, tha handiest way to do that is too fast if the whole thing is selected. So I'll see what I can do. Do any of our copy utils have an optional time delay between file copies, say 3 seconds so that kmail and my mailwatcher script would treat them as normal incoming email? I wouldn't care if it took a few hours.
Thanks Michele.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Difficult to say :-) But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones 2.1G, so well above 695000. I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
Cheers Michele
I may have found about 2.5 gigs worth, in a backup directory I had made before installing TDE. My script might be able to handle that as incoming mail if I only move 5 or so at a time back into /var/spool/mail/gene. But mc, tha handiest way to do that is too fast if the whole thing is selected. So I'll see what I can do. Do any of our copy utils have an optional time delay between file copies, say 3 seconds so that kmail and my mailwatcher script would treat them as normal incoming email? I wouldn't care if it took a few hours.
Thanks Michele.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene!
Why do you use mbox instead of maildir?
Nik
On Sunday 16 August 2015 03:32:17 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Difficult to say :-) But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones 2.1G, so well above 695000. I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
Cheers Michele
I may have found about 2.5 gigs worth, in a backup directory I had made before installing TDE. My script might be able to handle that as incoming mail if I only move 5 or so at a time back into /var/spool/mail/gene. But mc, tha handiest way to do that is too fast if the whole thing is selected. So I'll see what I can do. Do any of our copy utils have an optional time delay between file copies, say 3 seconds so that kmail and my mailwatcher script would treat them as normal incoming email? I wouldn't care if it took a few hours.
Thanks Michele.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene!
Why do you use mbox instead of maildir?
Nik
procmail, after running fetchmails output thru the gamut of spamassassin and clamav, makes an mbox file when it delivers to /var/spool/mail/$user, but kmail fetches from that and sorts to maildir folders. Generally I avoid anything inside kmail that even smells like an mbox file, too slow.
My mailwatcher script, which uses inotifywait to watch that directory and notify kmail to go fetch the mail, normally operates fast enough that this mbox file is very rarely more than one incoming mail.
I have obviously scripted 99% of the mail handling here. All so kmail doesn't have to go out on the net and fetch new mail. All it has to do is process the incoming mail dropped in /var/spool/mail, which it can usually do in 1/2 second or less.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 megabytes.
Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, so they are truly gone.
3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied.
Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Difficult to say :-) But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones 2.1G, so well above 695000. I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway).
Cheers Michele
And I just found another file, a mailfile in ~/liaM/inbox/cur, named gene. From an ls -l gene:
-rw-rw---- 1 gene gene 497328196 Feb 3 2015 gene but at less than 500 megs, thats not all of them.
Thats a fairly recent date, but I sure don't remember creating it. Thats one of the problems of advanced age, 8 decades so far. I don't recommend it. Avoid it as long as you can. :)
What I do know is that I may have moved some of them just to speed up kmail, one of the other folders is right at 500 megs now, and accessing it is about 6 or 7 seconds to find a new mail. That gets boring too.
Whats filelight? Something that _thinks_ its an mc?
Thanks Michele.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On 2015/08/16 04:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Whats filelight? Something that _thinks_ its an mc?
Filelight is an application available in TDE that displays folder usage in a graphical form. Personally I don't use it, but I know some people find it useful. Cheers Michele
On Sunday 16 August 2015 08:03:19 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 2015/08/16 04:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Whats filelight? Something that _thinks_ its an mc?
Filelight is an application available in TDE that displays folder usage in a graphical form. Personally I don't use it, but I know some people find it useful. Cheers Michele
I installed it, looks like it could be useful. It found all my nfs shares too, so I can track usage on all my cnc machinery too. Not that I am worried about running out of drive space on any of them. Drive sizes available today means their drive utilization is well under 5%. None of those will ever run out of drive even if it was a 20 Gb drive & the smallest out there is 250Gb. Severe overkill IMO.
One thing I miss is that I can recall kmail's composer highlighting what it thinks are spelling errors as I type. This version only checks if I click on the ABC button. And the add to dictionary choice does not & never has. Sigh...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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