Re: -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@discworld.dyndns.org>]

Martin Furman <Martin.Furman@vayan.com> wrote:
> 
> > Run a system call trace on qmail-pop3d to find out what's failing.  Or
> > simply reduce the number of messages in that maildir to something sane --
> > 400,000 messages in a maildir is madness.
>
> As for the 400K trust me I know its madness but unfortunately I can not
> do much about that.

Sure you can.  Archive the contents of that folder daily/weekly/monthly, etc.
Use a mail retriever such as getmail to pull mail from it and *delete* it.
There's lots you can do about it.

> Can you please explain to me what you mean by "trace on qmail-pop3d".

If you're on Linux, `man strace`.  Otherwise, try `man ktrace`.  If you still
need help, ask your OS vendor.

Charles
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