On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > It seems I do not fully understand how cyr_expire works. Some background: > > I've set up a testing server with 2.3.12-p2 with delayed expunge and > delayed delete. In cyrus.conf: > delpruneandexpunge cmd="cyr_expire -D 7 -E 3 -X 7" at=0400 > > and it all worked as expected. > > Now I'm ready to implement this on our production (2.3.12-p2) machine, > added the proper statements to imapd.conf > expunge_mode: delayed > delete_mode: delayed > deletedprefix: DELETED > > Then i tested the following command: > su cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -D 5 -E 5 -X 5 -p > user.spamdump -v" > > and to my horror it did not only delete expunged messages but a fair > share of messages without any flags set: > expunged 677607 out of 682456 messages from 30 mailboxes Did you check if any "live" messages were actually deleted, or was it just expunged messages cleaned up? I can imagine that being the case for a spamdump user that you clean up frequently. Bron. ---- 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
