On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:23 +0200, Eric Doutreleau wrote: I describe the delayed expunge feature in some detail in the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG: <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view> > i didn't understand how it works > for example i have a user > i run /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p user.huang_yi > and i got > Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days > Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes > Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days > Removed 0 deleted mailboxes > this user hasn't logged since a long time then he can't have deleted > item less than one day older > in the Deleted repertoire he has 178M of mail > but as u can see nothing was deleted The -p option is "Only find mailboxes starting with this prefix." It could be that DELETED.user.huang_yi [if that folder exists] doesn't match the pattern of starting with "user.huang_yu" It looks like that is true sardine.mormail.com> lm DELETED.user.wcreswel* DELETED.user.wcreswel.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren) DELETED.user.wcreswel.SPAM.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren) DELETED.user.wcreswel.sent-mail.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren) - yet - /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p user.wcreswel Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days Removed 0 deleted mailboxes - you need to include the proper prefix - $ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p DELETED.user.wcreswel Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.4B950AAB Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.SPAM.4B950AAB Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.sent-mail.4B950AAB Removed 3 deleted mailboxes - the DELETED isn't assumed. I suppose I should add that to my documentation. And please don't top-post. > Could it be out of > sync item what cyrus has "forgotten"? > Le 24/05/2010 17:30, pablo ponce a écrit : > > Hi, > > See cyr_expire with option -X: http://linux.die.net/man/8/cyr_expire > > El 24/05/2010 16:38, Eric Doutreleau escribió: > >> i m using cyrus 2.3.16 > >> and in each spool on the same level as the user directory i have a > >> directory whose name is DELETED. > >> i am wondering what is this directory? > >> it contains a mailbox hierarchy with some mails which are very old > >> can i smoothly delete it? -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba ---- 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
