Delete vs. Expunge in Public Namespace
All,
my IMAP client [1] marks messages as deleted, but doesn't expunge. Dovecot (2.2.27-3+deb9u2) expunges them. Is this because the mailbox is part of public namespace?
.... ::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP6 STORE 48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
::1.00143-::1.38247: * 48 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 49 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 50 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 51 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 52 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 53 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 54 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 55 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 56 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 57 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 58 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 59 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 60 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen))
- 61 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) MALP6 OK Store completed.
::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP7 SEARCH DELETED ....
Oct 2 10:18:03 hyptest dovecot: imap(chris): delete: box=MailingListen/test125, uid=180, msgid=<740a9ba3-d637-3fa0-1b87-ff8d79491bf0@ hyp.postbox.xyz>, size=1509 Oct 2 10:18:03 hyptest dovecot: imap(chris): expunge: box=MailingListen/test125, uid=167, msgid=<740a9ba3-d637-3fa0-1b87-ff8d79491bf0 @hyp.postbox.xyz>, size=1509
namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/:LAYOUT=fs:INDEXPVT=%h/.public-indexes prefix = MailingListen/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public }
- Chris
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quentinsf/IMAPdedup/master/imapdedup.py
On 3 Oct 2018, at 9.03, Chris chris2014@postbox.xyz wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 18:04:21 +0200 Chris wrote:
Is this because the mailbox is part of public namespace?
Or are they expunged because they're duplicates? Is there any check? Based on Message ID?
No.. None of this makes sense. Dovecot doesn't auto-expunge \Deleted mails in any situation.
I see your tool says:
parser.add_option("", "--no-close", dest='no_close', action="store_true",
help='Do not "close" mailbox when done. Some servers will purge deleted messages on a close command.')If it's sending CLOSE, that explains it. It's not just "some servers", it's all IMAP servers. There's UNSELECT command to close without expunging.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:04:05 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
If it's sending CLOSE, that explains it. It's not just "some servers", it's all IMAP servers. There's UNSELECT command to close without expunging.
Thank you! Sorry, didn't know that. It is sending close:
::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP9 CLOSE
::1.00143-::1.38247: MALP9 OK Close completed.
::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP10 LOGOUT
::1.00143-::1.38247: * BYE Logging out MALP10 OK Logout completed.
- Chris
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