Expunged mail files left 'on disk'?

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

What do you have for cyr_expire in your cyrus.conf? And what for 
expunge_mode in imapd.conf? Those settings determine how expunged mails are 
handled.

--On 4. Juli 2013 14:10:52 +0100 Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst at tdx.co.uk> 
wrote:

> I just noticed on our cyrus-imap server (2.4.17) - a users mail box had 3
> messages in it (according to their IMAP client) - yet on disk (in their
> spool/user directory) there were around a thousand message files, i.e.
>
> 172382.
> 172381.
> 172392.
>
> etc - going back about two weeks.
>
> Should these be removed when the email is deleted & expunged? - They
> didn't show in the client...
>
> I emptied the users mailbox in their client, paused delivery - moved
> those files somewhere safe, and reconstructed their inbox.
>
> Having done this - there's now 2 files in their spool dir, and 2 messages
> shown in the client.
>
> If I delete one, and expunge - there's still the same two files in the
> spool directory. Is this normal behaviour?
>
> We don't have singlestoreinstance enabled, and I can't see any obvious
> errors in the logs. We do have a 'replica' IMAP server setup, that this
> one pushes to via the IMAP sync_ system.
>
> It could be it's normal - and they'll get 'culled' later, I just never
> noticed it before (and it's a bit concerning - esp. if this isn't right).
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