On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:00 -0400, Joseph Brennan wrote: > --On Friday, April 2, 2010 5:30 PM -0700 Nybbles2Byte > <nybbles2byte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Okay, I am sure this is stupid question but how do you really delete > > messages. When I delete messages in my email client and then log in to > > see the mailbox through a web program I see that the message are marked > > as deleted but still there. > That's what "delete" does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still > undelete them, in case of error. > Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted. For no > known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of "expunge". For the record: recent versions of Cyrus also support "delayed expunge", where even messages that have been 'expunged' can be recovered for a time without having to resort to extra-ordinary means [restore from backup & reconstruct mailbox]. This feature has to be specifically activated. Awesome feature. ---- 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
