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? > > -- > Best regards, > Jeff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > -- _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
