{"id":1623,"date":"2026-02-21T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:44:23","slug":"plesk-and-the-maildirsize-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Plesk and the maildirsize file"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the Maildir on a Plesk server gets mangled, the file &#8220;maildirsize&#8221; in the user&#8217;s mail directory may get out of sync. There are many knowledge base articles out there that claim to solve the problem &#8211; but the only real cure that I found so far is described at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.plesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/12377321189527-Usage-statistics-of-a-mailbox-are-not-accurate-in-the-Mail-Accounts-section-of-a-Plesk-domain\">https:\/\/support.plesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/12377321189527-Usage-statistics-of-a-mailbox-are-not-accurate-in-the-Mail-Accounts-section-of-a-Plesk-domain<\/a>. It boils down to a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>plesk repair mail &#91;emailaddress]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>on the SSH console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Maildir on a Plesk server gets mangled, the file &#8220;maildirsize&#8221; in the user&#8217;s mail directory may get out of sync. There are many knowledge base articles out there that claim to solve the problem &#8211; but the only real cure that I found so far is described at https:\/\/support.plesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/12377321189527-Usage-statistics-of-a-mailbox-are-not-accurate-in-the-Mail-Accounts-section-of-a-Plesk-domain. It boils down to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?p=1623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Plesk and the maildirsize file&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}