Questions on cyrus config directory...

[Ken Murchison]

Jason Williams wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I was playing around today with my cyrus test server. Basically, trying 
> my best to learn the ins and outs of it before I go live with the server.
> 
> Anyway, my config directory is /var/imap
> 
> I was looking around in there today, checking out the stuff that resides 
> in the mailbox.
> While in there, I noticed something that struck me as odd: (at least I 
> thought it was odd :) )
> 
> Here is what I was looking at:
> 
> obsidian# pwd
> /var/spool/imap/user/jwilliams
> 
> 
> obsidian# ls -la
> total 54
> drwx------  3 cyrus  cyrus    512 Jan 29 14:56 .
> drwx------  5 cyrus  cyrus    512 Jan 28 14:05 ..
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus   3171 Jan 29 13:07 10.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus   3166 Jan 29 13:09 11.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    977 Jan 28 14:20 2.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus   3143 Jan 28 14:23 3.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus   3155 Jan 28 14:26 4.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus   3158 Jan 28 14:40 5.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    972 Jan 28 17:12 6.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    978 Jan 28 17:13 7.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    980 Jan 29 09:42 8.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    991 Jan 29 12:47 9.
> drwx------  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Jan 29 14:56 Trash
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus  13784 Jan 29 14:56 cyrus.cache
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    163 Jan 29 14:56 cyrus.header
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    596 Jan 29 14:56 cyrus.index
> 
> This is my test account. What I found as odd or what I dont understand 
> (yet) is that it shows I have 10 messages in here. I was doing testing 
> earlier, sending messages to myself testing both cyrus and postfix as 
> well as other thing to ensure everything was working. However, once I 
> completed my testing, I deleted the emails using my mozilla client and 
> then proceeded to empty the trash...

IMAP uses a delete/expunge model.  When you "delete" a message in IMAP, 
it just sets a \deleted flag.  In order to remove \deleted messages from 
a mailbox, the client needss to send the EXPUNGE command.

When you delete a message in Mozilla (as you have it configured), it 
sets the \deleted flag and also copies the message to your Trash folder 
(thus counting twice against your quota).  In order to remove the 
\deleted messages, you need to "Compact Folders".  "Empty Trash" simply 
deletes and expunges the messages in your Trash folder.

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