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<span style=" font-family:'Verdana'; font-size: 10pt;">You learn something new every day!<br>
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Sunday, April 4, 2010, 8:03:14 AM, you wrote:<br>
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<span style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt; color: #800000;"><b>> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:00 -0400, Joseph Brennan wrote:<br>
<span style=" color: #800080;">>> --On Friday, April 2, 2010 5:30 PM -0700 Nybbles2Byte <br>
>> <<a style=" font-weight: normal;" href="mailto:nybbles2byte@gmail.com">nybbles2byte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Okay, I am sure this is stupid question but how do you really delete<br>
>> > messages. When I delete messages in my email client and then log in to<br>
>> > see the mailbox through a web program I see that the message are marked<br>
>> > as deleted but still there.<br>
>> That's what "delete" does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still<br>
>> undelete them, in case of error.<br>
>> Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted. For no<br>
>> known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of "expunge".<br>
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<span style=" color: #800000;">> For the record: recent versions of Cyrus also support "delayed expunge",<br>
> where even messages that have been 'expunged' can be recovered for a<br>
> time without having to resort to extra-ordinary means [restore from<br>
> backup & reconstruct mailbox]. This feature has to be specifically<br>
> activated.<br>
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> Awesome feature. <br>
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