files on disk but not in index?

[Brian & Jennifer Murrell]

On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 13:10 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > You may have a bunch of messages that were marked as \Deleted (and
> > not 
> > displayed by your client) but haven't been expunged.
> 
> I have my every-day-all-day e-mail client, evolution, set to display
> deleted messages (it shows them with a strike-through) and not
> expunge
> until I tell it to with a key-combination, so I expunge many times a
> day already.
> 
> > How many of the messages shown by mbexamine have the \Deleted flag
> > set?
> 
> Does this mean 0?
> 
>  Index Header Info:
>   Generation Number: -79183387
>   Minor Version: 12
>   Header Size: 128 bytes  Record Size: 96 bytes
>   Number of Messages: 3963  Mailbox Size: 114722914 bytes
>   Last Append Date: (1588775886) Wed May  6 10:38:06 2020
>   UIDValidity: 957666537  Last UID: 1611876
>   Deleted: 0  Answered: 1634  Flagged: 54
>   Mailbox Options: POP3_NEW_UIDL
>   Last POP3 Login: (0) Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>   Highest Mod Sequence: 1077383
> 
> Or is the "Deteled: 0" there something different than \Deleted?
> 
> In any case:
> 
> # /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/mbexamine user.brian | grep \\\\Deleted
> 
> reports nothing.

Any further ideas on this massive discrepancy between files on disk
(and in the index) and what my IMAP clients are seeing?

Cheers,
b.

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