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

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/30/2012 04:53 PM, Eric Luyten wrote:
> On Fri, March 30, 2012 12:26 pm, Adam  Tauno Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:12 -0400, 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!
>>
>> If Delayed Expunge is enabled, then it is normal.  Delayed expunge makes
>> restore of lost messages easier, is a handy means of 'data retention', and
>> helps to avoid I/O-explosions.  If Delayed Expunge isn't enabled - then this
>> seems odd.
>
> Adam,
> Mikhail,
>
> We do not have delayed expunge enabled on our 2.3.16 server and occasionally
> come across multiple-linked message files.
> I haven't been able to trace this back to one or another IMAP client, though.
>
> Regards,
> Eric Luyten, COmputing Centre VUB/ULB.


Is it possible this is singleinstancestore at work at the mails that 
stay behind are linked back to another user's mailbox?






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