problems with deleted messages and reconstruct

[Eric Luyten]

On Thu, June 19, 2014 6:06 pm, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>

> On 19/06/2014, at 12:03, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
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>
>> Then I guess "unexpunge -l" should show them.
>>
>
> It does not.
>
>
> It puzzles me how reconstruct finds all mail files, including the ones before
> 2008, but a mail client only shows mails after 2008. That is, there are mail
> files in the mailbox that neither are recovered by reconstruct, nor are
> deleted by the -O option.


Did the mail client performing the message deletes disconnect from the IMAP
service ?


Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB.


>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I didn’t apply any patch. This is a vanilla cyrus imap clean install.
>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn’t reconstruct -O take care of non indexed files? Should I assume
>>> that, if it didn’t delete them, they are still indexed? How can I list all
>>>  expunged/non-deleted mails?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Rodrigo
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/06/2014, at 11:51, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Depending on how you installed the defaults could have been changed by
>>>> a patch.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it does not. I do not specify it in imapd.conf, so I assume the
>>>>> default behavior (not delayed).
>>>>>
>>>>> Rodrigo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19/06/2014, at 10:47, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rodrigo Ventura
>>>>> Institute for Systems and Robotics
>>>>> Instituto Superior Técnico
>>>>> Lisbon, Portugal
>>>>> http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Rodrigo Ventura
>>> Institute for Systems and Robotics
>>> Instituto Superior Técnico
>>> Lisbon, Portugal
>>> http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda
>>>
>>>
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