Hello,
We have noticed that in some cases when a user deletes messages from a folder using IMAP (and then expunges the deleted messages) the physical size of the folder in question does not change.
The case in point is with UW IMAP v2004 and MBX folders. Repeated deletions and expunges successfully remove large messages, but the physical folder remained [essentially] unchanged in size. This seems to happen sometimes, but not always.
Under what conditions does this actually happen?
Is there a way to force the imap server to garbage collect the mbx folders? Or is soemthing else going on?
This is an important issue as, when this happens, the seemingly deleted/expunged messages still take up disk quota space for the users in question.
Thank you for any pointers.
-Erik Kangas / Lux Scientiae
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