Re: Purging old email files from Cyrus-IMAPD v.3.0.9 on FreeBSD-12.0

2019-05-16 Thread Savvas Karagiannidis
Hi James, I think deleted and expunged are explained well in the documentation. Deleted: In IMAP when a user deletes an email, the email is actually only flagged as deleted. The user can still see the message and even unset the flag recovering the email. Expunged: When the user issues the expunge

Re: Purging old email files from Cyrus-IMAPD v.3.0.9 on FreeBSD-12.0

2019-05-16 Thread James B. Byrne via Info-cyrus
On Thu, May 16, 2019 11:00, Savvas Karagiannidis wrote: > Hi James, > the command that performs the actual removal of the files from the > file system is cyr_expire > > According to your cyrus.conf and the manual

Re: Purging old email files from Cyrus-IMAPD v.3.0.9 on FreeBSD-12.0

2019-05-16 Thread Savvas Karagiannidis
Hi James, the command that performs the actual removal of the files from the file system is cyr_expire According to your cyrus.conf and the manual of cyr_expire, the operation is performed daily at 04:00. The command

Purging old email files from Cyrus-IMAPD v.3.0.9 on FreeBSD-12.0

2019-05-15 Thread James B. Byrne via Info-cyrus
We converted from v.2.0.? to v.3.0.? last year. We accepted the default settings for delete/expunge. Now we have suspicions that deleted and expunged email is not actually being deleted from the file system and the space recovered. Looking at the man page for cyr_expire I see this: The e