On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:53:17PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > On Fri, March 30, 2012 12:26 pm, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:12 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > > > >> I just noticed, that, when I move a message from INBOX to a folder in > >> Thunderbird (via IMAP), the file on the server sometimes remains in > >> both directories: /var/spool/imap/user/mi/message. > >> and /var/spool/imap/user/mi/folder/message. > >> The copies are a hardlink, so little space is wasted, but I'm > >> concerned about the toplevel (INBOX) directory having too many entries... I > >> thought, this is related to the folder (not) being immediately "compacted", > >> but even when I explicitly request a compacting (in Thunderbird), the > >> strangeness remains. Right now out of the 35170 messages in my INBOX, 1219 > >> are hardlinked to other folders... Is this normal? I'm using Cyrus imapd > >> 2.4.11 on FreeBSD. Please, > >> advise. Thanks! > > > > If Delayed Expunge is enabled, then it is normal. Delayed expunge makes > > restore of lost messages easier, is a handy means of 'data retention', and > > helps to avoid I/O-explosions. If Delayed Expunge isn't enabled - then this > > seems odd. > > Adam, > Mikhail, > > We do not have delayed expunge enabled on our 2.3.16 server and occasionally > come across multiple-linked message files. > I haven't been able to trace this back to one or another IMAP client, though. Copy will cause it. Replication failure will leave a link in the sync. directory until you clean up. Failed APPEND at the wrong time will leave a link into the stage. directory. And of course a regular delivery to more than one person will cause it too. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
