[Dovecot] Problem with expire plugin and expunge

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 15:54 +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> > > So it's as if the timestamp keeps changing to the newest deleted
> > > message.. Maybe mail_debug=yes shows something helpful with these
> > > patches:
> > >
> > > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/eac54c2dc98b
> > > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/63ed0d3f4f52
> > > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/2cb0fb910441
> >
> > It seems to work now. Message were expunged today and  'doveadm search -A
> > mailbox Trash savedbefore <days>d' still shows me messages that are four
> > days old or younger.
> 
> Big surprise: Something bad must have happened after the messages were deleted 
> from Trash; now all messages are zero days old.

Are you using maildir? Did you run with those patches + mail_debug=yes?