in netscape I think the option is called something like 'compact folder'
David Lang
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, William K. Hardeman wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:31:21 -0500
> From: William K. Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Brian Capouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 1. 2., etc., files in user.<username> directory
>
> Brian,
>
> Cool. Someone else that's using a Slackware system. Mine is
> Slackware-current. :)
>
> It sounds to me as if Netscape isn't doing an expunge. From my
> understanding of the IMAP protocol and how Cyrus implements it, no messages
> are actually deleted until an expunge operation is requested by the client.
> What happens is that the Delete flag is set, only. I think that both
> Netscape and Pine aren't seeing them because the Delete flag has been set
> in some prior session, but I could well be wrong. (If I am, I hope someone
> will correct me.)
>
> I'm not sure what might be happening here, but one suggestion is to try
> using a client that allows Deleted messages to be explicitely Expunged, and
> see what happens to your mail store on disk, then. One such client is
> Mulberry, which has Windows, Mac and Linux versions available. I don't
> really know of any others, although I'm sure there are some.
>
> If the explicitely called Expunge works, then I'd say it's a client issue.
> If the Expunge does not work, and the messages you expect to have been
> deleted are still on your drive, then there might be some mis-configuration
> or bug somewhere in your Cyrus install. I've not had any problems with mine
> that I've noticed, so far.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Will
> William Hardeman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --On Saturday, December 23, 2000 21:09:33 -0500 Brian Capouch
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I just finished installing cyrus 2.0.9 on a Slackware Linux system. I
> > had the same problems reported earlier today getting cyradm to install
> > properly; I finally resorted to going to another machine running an
> > earlier beta (2.0.7) and then manually copying files out of the ~/perl
> > directory into the various perl5 system locations. Now it works like a
> > charm.
> >
> > System, if it's germane to anyone, is Linux Slackware 7.0 running
> > 2.4.0-test12.
> >
> > Now my question: I am the only user on this box for the time being. I
> > want to make sure things are stable before moving any of my other users
> > over.
> >
> > I seem to be able to receive messages just fine, and sieve is running
> > (out of my home directory). However, I notice that the various messages
> > I have received, then moved to the Trash and then later "emptied" out
> > via Netscape, are still there in the cyrus user directory where they
> > were initially delivered. Stated different, even though my IMAP client
> > can't see them, *I* can if I manually go into the cyrus directory space
> > and "ls"
> >
> > Is this to be expected? They don't show up when I look at my IMAP mail
> > from either Netscape or Pine, and I'm hoping perhaps that they get
> > purged by some other entity.
> >
> > But I don't think 2.0.7 did that. Can anyone tell me for sure?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > B.
> >
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