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?
> 
> 


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