Seriously, in hmailadmin there is a button called 'Empty Folder'. How hard can it be to press it? IMO the problem is millions of files on system. clicking on "Empty Folder" for sure will start a process, but i suspect when and how it ends - if ever. Just initiate it in the evening. It will chug thr...

Thanks Katip - your suggestion is so far above my pay grade I wouldn't be confident doing it. We don't really mess about with advanced hmail settings or scripts.

We do have good database skills so we will have a think...

Regards,

Thanks for the replies. We seem to have uncovered literally millions of emails in the users' deleted items folder and it's beyond the capability of hmail/imap to cope with these numbers.

Will look at your suggestions and have a think!

Cheers!

We have a user with 40gb of data in his deleted messages folder and it's crippling our server - how can I empty this at windows / database level without using imap or is there a clever way of doing this?

Thanks in advance,

Sorry for late reply thanks for the suggestion. Not sure how many messages but we found one account was 40Gb! We are trying to get users to archive / delete emails. We have one user who has four devices accessing the same account - I think this is the one with the highest no of devices accessing a s...

I hate to have to open this thread but we are having the same original problem as first posted - with no changes to our set up and hmail imap extensions - all boxes ticked. Our data older is now 200Gb and we have about 2m mail messages and we are having imap sync issues all over the shop but mostly ...

Thanks we had 'sort' turned off - will this need a restart of hmailserver?

regards,

We have a new problem on our hmailserver (Version 5.6.7-B2425 on Windows server 2008 8Gb Ram no performance issues) whereby we are getting mail delivered as expected automatically to IOS devices but they don't appear on our desktop mail clients (Thunderbird/Outlook) unless we restart the client comp...