A couple of goodies

[Wesley Craig]

On 13 Jul 2007, at 05:03, David Carter wrote:
> 1) admin users can see the deleted mailboxes and just rename them back
>    into the live mailbox space:
>
>     DELETED/453f56443/user/dpc22/foo -> user/dpc22/foo

A downside of this approach is that the total size of the mailbox  
list is increased.  This can cause significant load in some  
environments.

> 2) We can use cyr_expire to remove deleted mailboxes as well as  
> expunged
>    messages, which seems to be an open issue in your version.  
> Presumably
>    Umich use some kind of external utility to clear away old  
> mailboxes?

cyr_expire could be used in either case, assuming you want to add  
code to it.  However, a major benefit of your methodology is that  
delayed delete benefits from replication.  In my version, it  
doesn't.  With my version, an admin can choose to have delayed  
deleted enabled separately on the primary and replica backends.  When  
the sync protocol says to delete something, if delayed delete is  
enabled, the deleted mail is moved to the deleted hierarchy.  In your  
version, delayed delete only makes sense on the primary backend, but  
the deleted hierarchy is replicated so it doesn't really matter.

I wonder if the deleted hierarchy needs to pay attention to the  
mailbox name hashing.

:wes