2.4.17 --> 2.5.3 Delayed expunge?
Andrew Morgan
morgan at orst.edu
Thu Oct 13 12:06:40 EDT 2016
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Sergey via Info-cyrus wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2016, Sergey via Info-cyrus wrote:
>
>> I'm wrong, "expunge_mode: immediate" works. I was expecting
>> quick delete, but it is slow: about 30 seconds or more.
>
> and a lot time for big mailboxes: some minutes.
If I remember correctly, this "lazy" delete of message files is a
performance optimization so that IMAP clients don't have to wait for the
deletion to happen. Also, expunged messages don't count against the
mailbox quota.
Andy
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