Reading the man page for cyr_expire it seems like this command is designed to expunge messages that are deleted over -E DAYS ago. I have a folder in my cyrus-imapd account that I have a few thousands of messages that do not seem to go away (each morning I look at the oldest message, and the old message does not go away). I do have a job for cyr_expire in the /etc/cyrus.conf file. Fedora Core 5 Cyrus-Imapd 2.3.1 Mike ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html