On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:44:29PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote: > zamri wrote: > > I am not completely understand the deletion process. If a mail get > > deleted, it is not deleted but just marked PURGE?. > > It is marked DELETE. > > > The administrator > > should run cron job to clean on an interval. If this is not run, the > > mail will not be deleted ? > > Correct. The message will remain in status DELETE. > > > what is the status 2 and 3? > > status DELETE = 2: message is marked for deletion > status PURGE = 3: message is marked for final removal > > So: > > IMAP command DELETE sets a message status=2 > > dbmail-util -dy sets the message status=3 > dbmail-util -py removes the message all together.
zamri: Also note that if you run dbmail-util -ay daily (as recommended by the install instructions) this means that messages will be removed from the database after 2 days (day 1 status => 3, day 2 => purge). It's a nice bit of insurance, IMO. Matt
