[Dovecot] doveadm purge output

[Daniel L. Miller]

On 11/23/2010 5:26 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> On 11/23/2010 12:35 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>> On 11/23/2010 10:59 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 10:40 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> location=mdbox:/var/mail/amfes.com/assp-bayes/mdbox
>>> ..
>>>> doveadm dump /var/mail/amfes.com/username/ | grep 'ref.*\b0\b'
>>>
> Continuing testing.  Examining the mail folder on disk using 'ls 
> -alrt' reveals:
>
> Delete a message from Inbox (moves to Trash).  Only file that updates 
> is 'dovecot.map.index.log' - and grows in size
>
> Perform 'Empty Trash'.  Again, only 'dovecot.map.index.log' updates - 
> and grows in size
>
> doveadm dump ... reveals - no output
>
> So at the moment - I'm not losing mail, but I can't get rid of stuff 
> I've deleted!  Once it's in mdbox - it's there forever!  :)

Further testing - did I mention I'm using Thunderbird for my client?

Just for fun - I used a webmail client (Roundcube) to check - and I saw 
a whole bunch of deleted messages in...the Inbox!

Hmm...went back to Thunderbird, performed 'Compact' on the INBOX - not 
the Trash this time - saw significant changes in index files.  Doveadm 
dump output now has results too!  Tried doveadm purge - I still see no 
output from the -D parameter - but the mail store is compacted to a 
fraction of what it was.  I don't know if -D or -v are supposed to 
provide much - but for me, I'm not seeing ANY (besides the skipped 
module messages).

So...doveadm purge works if the dumb user uses his dumber client 
properly (P.S. - might want to add a wiki note about this).  Back to the 
original question - is 'doveadm -v/-D purge' supposed to have any 
significant output?
-- 
Daniel