zamri wrote:
> Thanks. I got it. Some more to clear...
> 
> In many clients, the mails deleted are not actually *deleted*. It is
> moved to Trash folder. I think they are not marked as DELETE at this
> point right? When we delete the mails in Trash folder, then they are
> marked as DELETE right? after that we have to run dbmail-util -dy to
> mark them as PURGE? then run once again to actually delete them. am i
> right?

No. You need to run dbmail-util -py to actually delete messages marked
PURGE from the database.

> 
> Is there any way to jump from from status 2 to actually delete them?
> dbmail-util -py ?

dbmail-util -py will only delete messages set to status 3

to jump from status=2 to full deletion do:

dbmail-util -dy
dbmail-util -py

after each other.


> 
> On 3/23/06, *Matthew Sayler* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     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
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