After being moved, messages remain in both folders on the server

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Thu Mar 29 12:14:58 EDT 2012


On 03/29/2012 01:12 PM, Mikhail T. wrote:
> I just noticed, that, when I move a message from INBOX to a folder in
> Thunderbird (via IMAP), the file on the server sometimes remains in both
> directories:
>
>     /var/spool/imap/user/mi//message/.
>
> and
>
>     /var/spool/imap/user/mi//folder///message/.
>
> The copies are a hardlink, so little space is wasted, but I'm concerned
> about the toplevel (INBOX) directory having too many entries... I
> thought, this is related to the folder (not) being immediately
> "compacted", but even when I explicitly request a compacting (in
> Thunderbird), the strangeness remains. Right now out of the 35170
> messages in my INBOX, 1219 are hardlinked to other folders...
>
> Is this normal? I'm using Cyrus imapd 2.4.11 on FreeBSD. Please, advise.
> Thanks!


Are you using delayed expunge?











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