Virtual folder with 'younger' not updating

Jonathan Casiot jonathan at pueblo.co.uk
Wed Dec 30 12:11:10 EET 2020


On 30/12/2020 10:00, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
>> On 30/12/2020 11:52 Jonathan Casiot <jonathan at pueblo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>   
>> On 30/12/2020 06:25, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 29/12/2020 21:15 Jonathan Casiot <jonathan at pueblo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>> I have a virtual folder set up with the following in dovecot-virtual:
>>>>
>>>> INBOX
>>>> INBOX.temp
>>>>     ALL YOUNGER 86400
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that messages older than 86,400 seconds (24 hours) never
>>>> disappear from the folder. Is there any fix for this apart from adding
>>>> INDEX=MEMORY to the mailbox location in the config file?
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Dovecot 2.2.36 on CentOS.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> H!
>>>
>>> This is a known bug, we are tracking it as DOP-281. The indexes get updated when new mail is received.
>>>
>>> Aki
>>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> In my case new mails are shown in the virtual folder so presumably these
>> have been added to the index but those over 24 hours old are not removed
>> - a 'doveadm search' of the mailbox still shows messages that are older
>> than 24 hours.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan
> 
> Can you try expunging something from the folder, as an experiment?
> 
> Aki
> 

An expunge works, eg. 'before 40h' those messages are now no longer 
visible either in the mail client or a 'doveadm search'.

-- 
Jonathan


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