what is the DELETED directory in spool

[Eric Doutreleau]

Le 24/05/2010 19:38, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit :
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:23 +0200, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
>
> I describe the delayed expunge feature in some detail in the Cyrus
> chapter of WMOGAG:
> <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view>
>
>> i didn't understand how it works
>> for example i have a user
>> i run /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p user.huang_yi
>> and i got
>> Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days
>> Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes
>> Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days
>> Removed 0 deleted mailboxes
>> this user hasn't logged since a long time then he can't have deleted
>> item less than one day older
>> in the Deleted repertoire he has 178M of mail
>> but as u can see nothing was deleted
>
> The -p option is "Only find mailboxes starting with this prefix."  It
> could be that DELETED.user.huang_yi [if that folder exists] doesn't
> match the pattern of starting with "user.huang_yu"
>
> It looks like that is true
>
> sardine.mormail.com>  lm DELETED.user.wcreswel*
> DELETED.user.wcreswel.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren)
> DELETED.user.wcreswel.SPAM.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren)
> DELETED.user.wcreswel.sent-mail.4B950AAB (\HasNoChildren)
>
> - yet -
>
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p user.wcreswel
> Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days
>
> Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes
> Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days
> Removed 0 deleted mailboxes
>
>   - you need to include the proper prefix  -
>
> $ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -v -E 1 -X 1 -D 1 -p
> DELETED.user.wcreswel
> Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 1 days
>
> Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes
> Removing deleted mailboxes older than 1 days
> Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.4B950AAB
> Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.SPAM.4B950AAB
> Removing: DELETED.user.wcreswel.sent-mail.4B950AAB
> Removed 3 deleted mailboxes
>
> - the DELETED isn't assumed.
>
> I suppose I should add that to my documentation.
>
> And please don't top-post.
>
>> Could it be out of
>> sync item what cyrus has "forgotten"?
>> Le 24/05/2010 17:30, pablo ponce a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> See cyr_expire with option -X: http://linux.die.net/man/8/cyr_expire
>>> El 24/05/2010 16:38, Eric Doutreleau escribió:
>>>> i m using cyrus 2.3.16
>>>> and in each spool on the same level as the user directory i have a
>>>> directory whose name is DELETED.
>>>> i am wondering what is this directory?
>>>> it contains a mailbox hierarchy with some mails which are very old
>>>> can i smoothly delete it?


thank you very much  Adam for the explanation. It was really clear.
sorry for the top-post.
we had in our company a really stupid policy