[courier-users] Overloaded mailbox

A friend on my system (remotely hosted Plesk, FC3, Courier) has what
seems to be an overloaded mailbox. He had a folder which suspected spam
(SpamAssassin + Procmail) were going into and this contained about
50,000 messages (combination of heavy attack and not emptying
frequently). As he couldn't delete the contents of the folder (his
client, Thunderbird, kept dropping the connection) he deleted the whole
folder. I think this has led to all the messages being in the
Trash/Deleted folder which he now can't empty. His whole account has
become unusable by either Thunderbird or Squirrelmail. "ls
Maildir/.Trash/cur/ -la1 | wc -l" gives 66630 files and "ls
Maildir/.Trash/tmp/ -la1 | wc -l" gives 72711 (new only has 3 in it).

Needless to say I'm not at all knowledgeable in Courier and mail in
general so I've no idea what to do next. Can someone advise?

Also I will be addressing the issue of the volume of spam to hopefully
avoid this happening again , I had no idea this situation was developing!

Many thanks,
Geoff



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