The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure that Thunderbird has
actually compacted the folders.
If you run this, do you get the expected number of messages?
unexpunge -l user.ton|grep UID|wc -l
Change UID to Expg and remove "wc -l" in the above command to see when
the messages were expunged.
On 6/10/24 05:34, Binarus wrote:
Dear all,
on one my Cyrus imapd installations, I am running out of disk space.
Solving the problem the right way will take some days, so I decided to
delete about 100,000 messages as a first measure (those messages
definitely don't need to be kept any longer). I have used Thunderbird to
delete those messages (of course, I have not moved them to trash, but
have really deleted them), and afterwards have used cyrdump to verify
that they actually are flagged as deleted.
To finally free up the space on the disk, I wanted to use cyr_expire.
However, the output of
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -D 60s -E 60s -X 60s -v
only told me that nothing happened (last lines of the very lengthy
output, empty lines partly omitted):
...
cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton
cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Drafts
cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Junk
cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Sent
cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Trash
Expired 0 and expunged 0 out of 293918 messages from 3867 mailboxes
Removing deleted mailboxes older than 0.00 days
Removed 0 deleted mailboxes
Of course, after having deleted the messages in Thunderbird, I have
waited several minutes before I have issued the command mentioned above.
Does anybody have an idea why cyr_expire refuses to purge the deleted
messages?
I have to add that no MUA or other client was connected to the server
when I have issued the command. The Cyrus imapd version is 3.2.3, the OS
is Debian 11.9 / amd64.
Thank you very much in advance,
Binarus
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