When a folder is deleted, all of the messages within it are removed
immediately without a \Deleted flag / expunge cycle. Now the question of
whether we get those physmessage entries and messageblks out of the
database is another one entirely. There appear to be a few paths that
allow the message blocks themselves to hang around.

Aaron

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007, Jeff Brenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Hello Stephen,
> 
> Generally speaking, if you're using IMAP access, "deleting" means
> "move to trash folder", so they're not quite gone yet. You still have
> to "empty the trash" before the storage engine will be told to mark
> the messages as deleted.
> 
> SL> I just deleted an IMAP folder with 7000+ messages in it (archive
> SL> from old company) and then ran dbmail-util on it and it said that
> SL> it found 2 messages marked for deletion, ran it again, it deleted
> SL> those 2 messages and then found no more for deletion. Where are
> SL> these emails?
> 
> SL> I'm terrified if DBMA now since I ran a cleanup through there and
> SL> it wiped EVERY email I ever imported with any imap client whether
> SL> it was kmail, outlook or thunderbird...
> 
> SL> What should I do to keep my DB clean?
> 
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