No exire on subsolders [BUG#3092, BUG#2302]

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Aug 4 05:53:18 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:22 +0200, Heinrich Peters wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using Cyrus Imap on Debian (2.2.13-19+squeeze1).

Very very old.

>  I have configured my spam-folder to expire messages automatically
> after 31 days. If I add a subfolder to my junk-folder, the messages
> expire after 31 days, too.

Yes, the expire annotation is inherited.

> How can I stop this behavior? 

You can't.
<https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2302>
<https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3092>

You could probably set another expire annotation on the subfolder
itself;  something crazy like 9999, just as a hack.

> This is the info output for both folders:
> localhost.localdomain> info Junk
> {Junk}:
>   expire: 31
>   lastpop:
>   lastupdate:  4-Aug-2011 04:20:41 +0200
>   partition: default
>   size: 941565
> localhost.localdomain> info Junk.Training
> {Junk.Training}:
>   lastpop:
>   lastupdate:  4-Aug-2011 04:01:00 +0200
>   partition: default
>   size: 1563



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