To a degree I agree .. given mdbox doesnt delete until purge .. but then would be nice if purge took a dovecot search rather than just ditch everything with refcount=0 ... in that way could say purge everything thats been marked as delete according to a specified criteria.
rgds Matt completly unrelated moved mailserver back home and listed on cyren so atm getting bounced by dovecot.fi .. have requested de-listing > Aki Tuomi <mailto:aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> > 24 May 2018 at 3:35 pm > > I am not sure if lazy expunge makes much sense with mdbox, at least if > you use the same mdbox storage with it. It might make sense with > separate mdbox/sdbox/something for .EXPUNGED. > > Aki > Matt Bryant <mailto:m...@the-bryants.net> > 24 May 2018 at 11:53 am > So moving on from earlier issue now looking at converting mail inbox to > mdbox and keeping lazy_expunge as mdbox also .. but again seeing some > wierdness so questions .... > > 1) When i purge trash folder I seem to get 2 copies of the message in > .EXPUNGED/Trash folder .. however if I set > lazy_expunge_only_last_instance = yes then dont seem to get ANY copy .. > just nothing. > > 2) If I go into Trash and delete a message ... then it does not get > moved .. I assume that a delete in Trash is not actually an expunge on > TB and hence does get caught by the plugin. > > 3) Since mdbox doesnt delte anything anyway until purged would it be > better not to use lazy-expunge but just have a job that moves any > messages in mdbox_deleted: storage to the hidden .EXPUNGED namespace .. > does doveadm move work with mdbox_deleted ??? > > any help appreciated > > rgds > > Matt
