Deleting messages

[Nybbles2Byte]

You learn something new every day!

Sunday, April 4, 2010, 8:03:14 AM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:00 -0400, Joseph Brennan wrote:
>> --On Friday, April 2, 2010 5:30 PM -0700 Nybbles2Byte 
>> <nybbles2byte at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Okay, I am sure this is stupid question but how do you really delete
>> > messages. When I delete messages in my email client and then log in to
>> > see the mailbox through a web program I see that the message are marked
>> > as deleted but still there.
>> That's what "delete" does.  It marks the messages deleted.  You can still
>> undelete them, in case of error.
>> Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted.  For no
>> known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of "expunge".

> For the record: recent versions of Cyrus also support "delayed expunge",
> where even messages that have been 'expunged' can be recovered for a
> time without having to resort to extra-ordinary means [restore from
> backup & reconstruct mailbox].  This feature has to be specifically
> activated.

> Awesome feature.   
>  

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