Expunged mail files left 'on disk'?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> 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.

Back on list - one issue that can cause cleanups to fail on 2.4.x is an ongoing connection to the mailbox.  If another process is holding the mailbox name lock, then the cleanup is left for that process to finish instead.  24x7 connections by an IMAP client can trigger it.

This is fixed on the master tree by releasing the lock in the imapd command loop, so it's not maintained by idle connections.  It was a big, messy change that won't ever be backported though.

Bron.

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