On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:36:15AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 10:22 +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > How do the 'expunge_days' option in imapd.conf and the -X flag to > > cyr_expire play together? Currently we're using this cyrus.conf entry: > > delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3 -X 3 -D 3" at=040 > > I'm not sure if we should use 'expunge_days: 3' from now on or if it > > doesn't matter? > > Good question! I hadn't noticed that one. I wonder when messages > qualifying under "expunge_days" get expunged if cyr_expire is not run or > run with a different value. > > Also does expunge_days calculate from when the message was *expunged* or > when the message was *received*. I know there has been questions about > that concerning cyr_expire in the past. The documentation of > expunge_days seem clearer than the text for cyr_expire [of the previous > text for cyr_expire]. > > man cyr_expire: > Expunge previously deleted messages older than expunge-duration > (when using the "delayed" expunge mode). Format is the same as > delete-duration. > > NOTE: "older" than "expunge-duration". At least to me the phrase > "older" seems ambiguous. The documentation for delete-duration > uses the same phrasing. > > man imapd.conf > Number of days to retain expunged messages before cleaning up > their index records. The default is 7. > > NOTE: "number of days to retain" seems [to me] to clearly mean X > number of days since the message was expunged. > Man - I'd better go write some nicer docs! expunge_days is kind of a "fallback" if you don't run cyr_expire it will still clean up eventually. So long as you set it longer than your cyr_expire time then it's fine - otherwise your other processes will do the cleanup when they feel like it. It's purely a "clean out expunged records" value, and it calculates from when they were expunged. Nothing about the expunge cleanup cares when the message was received. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
