Re: cannot expunge messages

[Nicola Nye <nicola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eugene,

Just to check: has the mail actually been deleted by the client?

cyr_expire is there (I believe) to clean up messages and folders that have been flagged as deleted by the client but not yet physically removed. It can't remove mail that is undeleted, no matter how old it is.

https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/faqs/o-deleted-expired-expunged-purged.html

Perhaps ipurge might be more what you need?

https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/manpages/systemcommands/ipurge.html

Cheers,

   Nicola

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017, at 04:41 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:

Hi,

I'm using cyrus 2.5.11. I have abount hundred mailboxes, most of them

are used by users which still prefer POP3 over IMAP, but recently I

noticed that I have non-deleted mail for almost a year in such

mailboxes. I also have a roundcube web-interface configured to use IMAP,

so I took a brief look in one of such mailboxes and in contains only one

letter (obviously not fetched by the user at the time being).

I have in cyrus.conf:

EVENTS {

  checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30

  delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400

  deleteprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 4 -D 5" at=0430

  expungeprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 4 -X 5" at=0445

  tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400

}

Liiks like 'cyr_expire -E 4 -X 5' should expunge all the old mail, but

clearly this isn't happening. Why ? I'vetried to launch it by hand under

the cyrus user - nothing happens. I've also set the 'expire' property to

5 for all of the mailboxes:

# cyradm --user cyrus localhost

Password:

localhost> info

{Server Wide}

  private:

    admin: NIL

    comment: NIL

    expire: NIL

    squat: NIL

  shared:

    admin: NIL

    comment: NIL

    motd: NIL

    expire: 5

    freespace: 97686204

    most: 97686204;153245190

    total: 97686204;153245190

    shutdown: NIL

    squat: NIL

localhost>

This is what's happening when I launch this manually:

[cyrus@gw0:~]> cyr_expire -vvv -E 3 -D 3 -X3

Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 3.00 days

Expired 0 and expunged 6386 out of 1915882 messages from 316 mailboxes

Removing deleted mailboxes older than 3.00 days

Removed 0 deleted mailboxes

This doesn't help either (by the way: what is a private and shared

mailbox ? looks like cyrus documentation isn't much better than 15 years

ago).

I'm starting to think that may be I should delete these messages by hand.

Thanks.

Eugene.

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