Fixing Large Inboxes

Sometimes imap inboxes get huge and you need to clean it up into seperate folders:

#first get into the "cur" directory where it is full
find . -type f -ctime +168 | wc
# This will show you all files older than 1 week

Lets make a folder called Archive and put them in there

cd ..
ls -a1
mkdir .Archive
mkdir .Archive/cur
mkdir .Archive/new
mkdir .Archive/tmp
#you may need to change permissions
chown -R vpostmaster:vpostmaster .Archive
ls -l .Archive/
chmod -R 700 .Archive
ls -l .Archive/

Now Let us move back to the cur directory and move those files!

cd ../cur/
find . -type f -ctime +168 -print0 | xargs -0 -i'{}' mv '{}' ../.Archive/cur/
ls -1 | wc -l