lazy_expuge + mdbox

Matt Bryant matt at the-bryants.net
Thu May 24 09:00:07 EEST 2018


To a degree I agree .. given mdbox doesnt delete until purge .. but then
would be nice if purge took a dovecot search rather than just ditch
everything with refcount=0 ... in that way could say purge everything
thats been marked as delete according to a specified criteria.

rgds

Matt

completly unrelated moved mailserver back home and listed on cyren so
atm getting bounced by dovecot.fi .. have requested de-listing
> Aki Tuomi <mailto:aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>
> 24 May 2018 at 3:35 pm
>
> I am not sure if lazy expunge makes much sense with mdbox, at least if
> you use the same mdbox storage with it. It might make sense with
> separate mdbox/sdbox/something for .EXPUNGED.
>
> Aki
> Matt Bryant <mailto:matt at the-bryants.net>
> 24 May 2018 at 11:53 am
> So moving on from earlier issue now looking at converting mail inbox to
> mdbox and keeping lazy_expunge as mdbox also .. but again seeing some
> wierdness so questions ....
>
> 1) When i purge trash folder I seem to get 2 copies of the message in
> .EXPUNGED/Trash folder .. however if I set
> lazy_expunge_only_last_instance = yes then dont seem to get ANY copy ..
> just nothing.
>
> 2) If I go into Trash and delete a message ... then it does not get
> moved .. I assume that a delete in Trash is not actually an expunge on
> TB and hence does get caught by the plugin.
>
> 3) Since mdbox doesnt delte anything anyway until purged would it be
> better not to use lazy-expunge but just have a job that moves any
> messages in mdbox_deleted: storage to the hidden .EXPUNGED namespace ..
> does doveadm move work with mdbox_deleted ???
>
> any help appreciated
>
> rgds
>
> Matt

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