This issue is fixed in CVS;


On Friday 26 June 2009 @ 11:23, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> We use delayed expunge with a delay of 120 days.
>
> I was just playing with ipurge and it appears to 'physically'
> delete the messages rather than just marking messages as expunged. 
> Is it possible to have ipurge just mark messages as expunged rather
> than removing them?
>
> Looking at the man page I assume not.
>
> $ sudo -u cyrus /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge -s -X -f -d 365
> user.adam.sent-mail
> Working on user.adam.sent-mail...
> total messages    		 713
> total bytes       		 7683241
> Deleted messages  		 0
> Deleted bytes     		 0
> Remaining messages		 713
> Remaining bytes   		 7683241
> $ ls /var/spool/imap/a/user/adam/SPAM/  | wc -l
> 1703
>
> $ sudo -u cyrus /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge -s -X -f -d 5
> user.adam.SPAM Working on user.adam.SPAM...
> total messages    		 205
> total bytes       		 6493756
> Deleted messages  		 130
> Deleted bytes     		 4143062
> Remaining messages		 75
> Remaining bytes   		 2350694
> $ ls /var/spool/imap/a/user/adam/SPAM/  | wc -l
> 1573
>
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