If messages are expunged,

• is the \Deleted flag cleared?
• is there still information registered in what folder/mailbox the message was?

I thought about searching like this,

doveadm -o namespace/inbox/location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index search -u testtest mailbox '*' DELETED

but also does not do anything.

Maybe related to the older 2.2? Using dovecot-2.2.36-8.el7.x86_64

-----Original Message----- Sent: 16 March 2021 10:54 To: Marc <Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu>; dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: how to search expunged messages

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Is there an equivalent for expunged messages of this:

doveadm search -u testtest mailbox '*' DELETED

DELETED = "Message has flag \Deleted"

So no. If the message is actually expunged, and you have not ran doveadm purge, it should be found under the mdbox_deleted driver.

I am not sure what you are doing wrong.

buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm save -u testuser Subject: first

first . buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm mailbox status -u testuser "messages vsize" INBOX INBOX messages=1 vsize=28 buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm expunge -u testuser subject "first" mailbox INBOX buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm mailbox status -u testuser "messages vsize" INBOX INBOX messages=0 vsize=0 buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/vmail/testuser/Mail mailbox status -u testuser "messages vsize" INBOX INBOX messages=1 vsize=28 buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm purge -u testuser buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$ sudo doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/vmail/testuser/Mail mailbox status -u testuser "messages vsize" INBOX INBOX messages=0 vsize=0 buildbot@093c9b8e58bb:/buildslave$

Aki