> On 13. Oct 2020, at 22.27, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When using autoexpunge = 14 days in, for example. The trash of junk folders,
> does that physically remove the messages from disk or simply mark them to be
> removed and some other action needs to be taken?
>
> I ask because my mail server crapped out today and I discovered a Junk folder
> with 490,000 messages in it, and the sa-spamd and mariadb processes died a
> horrible death.
>
> Haven't had time to track down what was going on, but there were definitely
> messages in that junk folder from 2019 (though, of course, they may have been
> added within the last 14 days, I can't verify that as my solution was to
> remove the folder and recreate a new empty maildir).
What dovecot version is this? There was a bug found recently that autoexpunge
stopped expunging once it found first email in order which did not match
expunge criteria anymore.
It started from start of the mailbox and stopped when first recent email was
found. And if the mails were not in order it did leave rest of the folder
untouched.
Sami
