archive namespace reports mdbox_deleted: same as mdbox: is that ok?

Marc Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu
Mon Mar 15 13:56:30 EET 2021


Sorry Aki for asking again. I need to run the purge, but I want to make sure some user did not accedentally deleted a large folder.

I decided to keep tests limited for now to the main inbox namespace. But also here weird results.

Status of folders before the test[1], selected 10 messages from INBOX/test2 and shift+deleted them. Then restarted thunderbird (otherwise thunderbird kept showing 211 messages), INBOX/test2 indeed shows 10 fewer messages, now 201, but no deleted messages found INBOX/test2 and weirdly 1 in INBOX??? (result is the same after a force-resync)

If this surpasses public support let me know.


[1]
[@ testtest]# doveadm -v purge -u testtest

[@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*'
Sent messages=17 vsize=7473
Drafts messages=6 vsize=91785
INBOX/test2 messages=211 vsize=13443443
Junk messages=2 vsize=1969
Deleted Messages messages=1 vsize=956
Trash messages=47 vsize=769284
INBOX messages=1117 vsize=207623033

[@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*'
Sent messages=0 vsize=0
Drafts messages=0 vsize=0
INBOX/test2 messages=0 vsize=0
Junk messages=0 vsize=0
Deleted Messages messages=0 vsize=0
Trash messages=0 vsize=0
INBOX messages=0 vsize=0

[2]
[@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*'
Sent messages=17 vsize=7473
Drafts messages=5 vsize=3457
INBOX/test2 messages=201 vsize=12806313
Junk messages=2 vsize=1969
Deleted Messages messages=1 vsize=956
Trash messages=47 vsize=769284
INBOX messages=1117 vsize=207623033

[@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*'
Sent messages=0 vsize=0
Drafts messages=0 vsize=0
INBOX/test2 messages=0 vsize=0
Junk messages=0 vsize=0
Deleted Messages messages=0 vsize=0
Trash messages=0 vsize=0
INBOX messages=1 vsize=88328


[3]
[@]# doveconf | grep mail_location
mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/%u/index:CONTROL=~/mail/control


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