On 15 Jun 2024, at 10:53, Binarus wrote: > At first, thanks for your answer, and sorry for the delay. > > On 10.06.2024 12:20, Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure that Thunderbird has >> actually compacted the folders. > > I always thought that a message gets the "Deleted" flag assigned when I > delete it in TB, and that cyr_expire can be used to purge all messages that > have this flag set.
You thought wrong :-) That’s what EXPUNGE is for. I guess in Thunderbird the
operation is called "compact". There are 3 ways of deleting messages in
Thunderbird. If you use the one that only marks the messages as deleted, you
need to actually expunge them somehow.
> Would you mind shortly explaining why it is necessary to have TB compact the
> respective folder before using cyr_expire?
Because cyr_expire expires *expunged* messages, not ones with the \Deleted flag.
Regards,
Sebastian
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