problems with deleted messages and reconstruct

[Simon Matter]

>
> 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?

Does your server use "expunge_mode: delayed"?

Simon