imap clients say i have 4K messages but spool has 12894 files

[Simon Matter]

> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 08:47 -0500, Nic Bernstein wrote:
>>
>>     |expunge_mode:| delayed
>>
>>         The mode in which messages (and their corresponding cache
>>         entries) are expunged. “semidelayed” mode is the old behavior
>> in
>>         which the message files are purged at the time of the
>> EXPUNGE,
>>         but index and cache records are retained to facilitate
>> QRESYNC.
>>         In “delayed” mode, which is the default since Cyrus 2.5.0,
>
> So this doesn't apply to my 2.4.17 then does it?

How did you install your 2.4.17 server? Because you don't run the latest
of the 2.4 series I guess you have installed it from packages?

If so it's possible that you distribution uses different configuration
than the default, at build time. You should check this.

Regards,
Simon