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[Patrick Boutilier]

On 11/30/18 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne via Info-cyrus wrote:
> While investigating a problem I encountered a(nother) situation that I
> do not understand.
> 
> I entered a user's root mailbox using cd and did 'ls -l *\.'.  There
> are 245 files with names like '999\.' in this directory.  My
> understanding is that this would up as 245 messages in the user's
> INBOX display.  However, the user's INBOX only shows 36.
> 
> There is is also a subfolder named 'INBOX^Trash' that is shown to
> contain 246 messages but which actually contains 14820.
> 
> I am not familiar with IMAP3 and have only recently converted to it
> from imap2 running on a different host.  It was during the conversion
> process that the existing .Trash/.Sent/.Drafts were replaced by
> INBOX^Trash/INBOX^Sent/INBOX^Drafts.  So there may be something
> obvious that I do not know about.
> 
> I speculate that this has something to do with the difference between
> delete and expunge but I would like to know for certain what is
> happening if someone would explain it to me.


Most likely delayed expunge. Does this show 209?

unexpunge -l user.realuserid |grep UID|wc -l




> 
> Thanks
> 

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