Maybe try

fts_autoindex_exclude = \EXPUNGED

I just tried, it doesn't work... It should not have worked, the documentation says that names starting with a backslash are for IMAP flags, like \Junk or \Trash.

I have both lazy_expunge and fts_autoindex activated (with fts-xapian), as follows:

plugin { lazy_expunge = EXPUNGED/ }

plugin { fts = xapian fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20 attachments=1 verbose=0 fts_autoindex = yes fts_enforced = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = EXPUNGED fts_autoindex_exclude2 = EXPUNGED/* }

However, I still see "indexer-worker...: Info: Indexed 1 messages in EXPUNGED/..." in the dovecot log each time I expunge an email.  I tried various other settings for "fts_autoindex_exclude" (EXPUNGED alone, EXPUNGED + EXPUNGED/ + EXPUNGED/*, ...), but none of them seem to work.

Thanks for your help,

Gregory