[Dovecot] doveadm purge output

dmiller at amfes.com dmiller at amfes.com
Tue Nov 23 17:35:33 EET 2010


 On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:53:56 +0000, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 21:54 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>> Running "doveadm purge" with both -D and -v parms, and both -A and 
>> -u
>> options, I don't see much in the way of output.
>>
>> doveadm -v purge -u username just returns with no output
>> doveadm -v purge -A returns no output for most users - for my own
>> mailbox it yields "20 / 21"
>>
>> -D returns the same, along with messages about skipping plugin 
>> modules.
>>
>> Is this normal?
>
> Yes. There's currently no verbosity.
>
>> I'm thinking not - since after deleting messages in the
>> client, emptying the trash, compacting from the client, and then
>> performing a purge - I see no difference in mailbox files.
>
> See if this finds any messages with refcount=0:
>
> doveadm dump ~/mdbox/storage/ | grep 'ref.*\b0\b'

 Yes it does.

 --
 Daniel


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