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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