[Dovecot] lazy_expunge questions

James Devine fxmulder at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 18:34:54 EEST 2012


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 10.4.2012, at 23.19, James Devine wrote:
>
> > I'm messing around with lazy expunge and I just had a couple of
> questions.
> >
> > If I delete messages or folders with messages, I see them being moved to
> > the expunge namespace, but if I delete an empty folder, all traces of it
> > seem to disappear.  Is there a way to move empty folders to the expunge
> > namespace also?
>
> If you give 3 namespaces to lazyexpunge, it uses another way of moving
> stuff, and that includes also moving empty folders. But with 1 namespace it
> doesn't currently move it. Perhaps it should.
>
> > My second question is in regards to restoring folders.  If I try to
> execute
> > the imap command 'RENAME EXPUNGED/TEST INBOX/TEST' I get 'NO [CANNOT]
> Can't
> > rename mailboxes to/from expunge namespace'.  Just wondering if this is
> > possible or do I need to recreate the folder and then move messages into
> it.
>
> You need to recreate + move. Renaming across namespaces is a little tricky.
>
>
It looks like 3 namespace support in the lazy expunge plugin was removed in
2.1+ ?


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