Expunged mail files left 'on disk'?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013, at 01:59 AM, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> --On 05 July 2013 12:20 +0200 Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> > No. So I'm guessing that your delete_mode actually isn't immediate.
> > There's no harm in using cyr_expire with the additional flags, but you
> > could also add "delete_mode: immediate" to your imapd.conf if you want to
> > be sure.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried running the cyr_expire, with the suggested flags (i.e. -X 3 et'al) 
> - this unfortunately has done nothing :(
> 
> For example, I ran it on my own mailbox - according to an IMAP client I 
> have  161 messages in my inbox. However, "on disk" there are 2,952 'message 
> files' in my Inbox directory (i.e. under spool/users).
> 
> I ran 'cyr_expire -E 3 -X 3 -D 3 -v -p user.kpielorz' - and it returned:
> 
> "
> Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 3.00 days
> 
> Expunged 0 out of 140004 messages from 78 mailboxes
> "
> 
> After that, I still have 2,952 messages in my spool directory - it's like 
> no deletion happened? The oldest message in the spool directory (that 
> doesn't show as an email in the client) is weeks old now.
> 
> It looks like since we moved to 2.4.17 no messages have been removed from 
> disk. Even if I set the 'immediate' delete option now in imapd.conf - I'm 
> going to be left with potentially thousands of files hanging around, if I 
> can't get cyr_expire to delete them :(
> 
> Any suggestions? - Is there any more debug output I can get out of 
> cyr_expire?

Can you send me a copy of your cyrus.index file for that mailbox?  It shouldn't be too big.  I'm interesting in looking at what's in it!

This really SHOULD work - it would be pretty bad if we've broken expunge, and I'll make it a priority to get a fix for you.

Regards,

Bron.

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  Bron Gondwana
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