Stop panicking. The flags on a mailbox tell the client what flags the client may set on messages in the mailbox. So, the deleted_flag on a mailbox indicates that messages in the mailbox can be deleted.
Having mailboxes with deleted_flags=1 is the *normal* situation. Hari Sekhon wrote: > I have a dbmail based mail server running on mysql as the database. This > has been running for 3-4 months. > > I have noticed just recently that it is marking folders in the > dbmail_mailboxes table with deleted_flag=1. This was not intentional and > seems to happen a lot. I have had to stop expunging from the database > due to fear of losing company email. > > I found a huge amount of folder throughout the company that had this > flag, set. Maybe half of them, maybe 2/3. So I manually did an > > update dbmail_mailboxes set deleted_flag=0 where deleted_flag=1; > > in mysql to reset it all back to normal but within 2 weeks I have > another load of folders with the deleted flag set including my bosses > who insists he has not deleted those. They still appear in his mail client. > > Does anybody know why it is doing this? Is it a bug? > This is critical. If the system is going wonky and I can't fix it or > stabilize it then I will have to think about migration away before it's > too late. > > Help anyone? > > -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
