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? ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html