If you're getting a message like this:

        expiring messages in ... older than ... days

that's the result of the /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire annotation  
being set.  It's controlled with the -E flag.  A spam dump is a  
pretty typical place to find an annotation like that.

:wes

On 27 Jul 2008, at 13:14, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Apparently there is a parameter that tells cyr_expire to delete the
> message and at the moment it seems it is randomly set between  
> mailboxes.
> I guess I need to dig deeper...
>
> The deletion happens from the -E flag, this much I know now.
>
>  From the cyr_expire man page:
> "Cyr_expire is used to expire messages and duplicate delivery database
> entries."
>
> But when does it expire messages and when does it only remove
> duplicates? No further explanation is given furter down:
> "−E expire-days
>    Prune the duplicate database of entries older than expire-days."
>
> Any guesses as to what this could be if the msg itself is not  
> marked for
> deletion?
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