Expunged mail files left 'on disk'?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> 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.

What's the procedure to recover?  Run reconstruct (which would ressurect the
left-over messages) and then delete them?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh