help with cyr_expire please

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> It seems I do not fully understand how cyr_expire works. Some background:
> 
> I've set up a testing server with 2.3.12-p2 with delayed expunge and 
> delayed delete. In cyrus.conf:
> delpruneandexpunge  cmd="cyr_expire -D 7 -E 3 -X 7" at=0400
> 
> and it all worked as expected.
> 
> Now I'm ready to implement this on our production (2.3.12-p2) machine, 
> added the proper statements to imapd.conf
> expunge_mode: delayed
> delete_mode: delayed
> deletedprefix: DELETED
> 
> Then i tested the following command:
> su cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -D 5 -E 5 -X 5 -p 
> user.spamdump -v"
> 
> and to my horror it did not only delete expunged messages but a fair 
> share of messages without any flags set:
> expunged 677607 out of 682456 messages from 30 mailboxes

Did you check if any "live" messages were actually deleted, or was it
just expunged messages cleaned up?  I can imagine that being the case
for a spamdump user that you clean up frequently.

Bron.