Issue mailbox usage shown vs mails in webmail

[haaid]

Hi all,

One of my mailboxes is shown to use 616Gb. This is a mailbox that has no limit set and was 308Gb just a bit ago.
I figured something was wrong as I have access to this mailbox and can't see very many mails.
I tried repairing this mailbox with the plesk repair mail command and that doubled the usage size...

if I use the "du" command to find largest directories and files i notice these being the cullprit:

622198544 /var/qmail/mailnames/<domain>/<user>/Maildir/.Trash
332034664 /var/qmail/mailnames/<domain>/<user>/Maildir/.Trash/cur
289570928 /var/qmail/mailnames/<domain>/<user>/Maildir/.Trash/tmp

If I check in webmail, there are hardly any file in the trash.

Can I safely remove or empty the .Trash directory via commandline?

Any suggestions welcome.

 

[Frostbolt]

I would suggest you move the files, check if everything still works and then remove the files. If anything breaks, you can always move the files back.

 

[haaid]

Deleting the files didn't solve the issue that it still showed in the GUI as 616 Gb. As this was (after deletion of the files) a mostly empty mailbox, I just deleted it and remade it, only then I didn't see the gigantic size anymore. I have another mailbox, that is used a lot (so which I can't just delete and make anew) which has the same problem.