DELETED mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:

> Hello,
> I recently deleted some mailboxes.
> Some of them where recreated with the same mailbox name.
>
> So now i have the new mailboxes
>
> user.user1
> user.user2
> user.user3
>
>
> but issuing a lm command I still can see the old mailboxes are still
> existent like wit the DELETED prefix:
>
> DELETED.user.user1
> DELETED.user.user2
> DELETED.user.user3
>
> how can I purge the old mailboxes in the mailboxes.db without damage to
> the new mailboxes
> and without damage to the content of mailboxes in /var/spool/imap ??

This is a feature of Cyrus.  See the following from the imapd.conf 
manpage:

        deletedprefix: DELETED
             If "delete_mode" set to be "delayed", the prefix for  the  deleted
             mailboxes  hierarchy.   The  hierarchy delimiter will be automati‐
             cally appended.

        delete_mode: immediate
             The manner in which mailboxes are deleted. "Immediate" mode is the
             default  behavior  in which mailboxes are removed immediately.  In
             "delayed" mode,  mailboxes  are  renamed  to  a  special  hiearchy
             defined  by  the  "deletedprefix"  option  to  be removed later by
             cyr_expire.

             Allowed values: immediate, delayed


Look at the cyr_expire manpage for the options to purge these deleted 
mailboxes.  You'll probably want to add/modify an EVENT in cyrus.conf for 
this.  Here is what I use:

   delprune      cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -E 1 -X 7 -D 7" at=0100

 	Andy