moving messages between namespaces go into purge
justina colmena ~biz
justina at colmena.biz
Wed Nov 30 19:24:15 UTC 2022
That particular feature seems to work for me as documented. People have to
play first-name games with mass-marketed emails, and clients crash for
various reasons.
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9:23:44 AM AKST, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> The reason is that MOVING a mail is same COPYING and EXPUNGING
> a mail. mdbox format retains deleted messages, even if they
> result from moving. It's not a queue as such.
>
> With mdbox format you are supposed to run purge periodically in any case.
>
> I am not sure what justina is again rambling about...
>
> Aki
>
>> On 30/11/2022 19:34 EET justina colmena ~biz <justina at colmena.biz> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Mails stored as individual files in a "Maildir/" can
>> conceivably be "moved"
>> within the O/S file system rather than copied, but the default flatfile
>> Mailbox format does require a copy-and-purge, as far as I know. ...
>
>
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