problems with deleted messages and reconstruct

[Rodrigo Ventura]

Hello all, I’m having the following issue with cyrus imapd 2.4.13: a user deletes a large amount of mails but many of those mails remain in the mailbox folder. I double checked and imapd reports no mails prior to, say, 2008. However, there are mail files in the mailbox older than 2008. I tried to "reconstruct -r user.xpto", as well as “reconstruct -r -O user.xpto”, but this doesn’t seem to solve the problem. Also, I didn’t find a solution/explanation in neither FAQ nor googling.

Any clues on how to diagnose this problem?

Thank you,

Rodrigo Ventura
Institute for Systems and Robotics
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda