Mails not getting expired

[Daniel Hoffend]

Hello Tom

you're not alone. I experienced the same issue. After digging into the
issue, I found a fix for the delayed expunge mode in the cyrus git repo.

A patched cyrus version for Kolab 3.4 is currently in testing and should
be available soon (tm).

--
regards
Daniel Hoffend

On 2015-10-22 15:06, Tom Sparrow wrote:
> On 12/10/15 14:47, Tom Sparrow wrote:
> >My server seems to be insisting on keeping all the emails it's
> >ever received. The IMAP clients quite happily show the emails that
> >have not been deleted as expected, but looking in
> >/var/spool/imap/domain/e/example.com/p/user/person (for example)
> >shows far more emails, going back to when I started the server up
> >(February, in this case).
> >
> >I've looked for relevant settings, but can't find anything that
> >seems to be wrong.
> >
> >/etc/imap.conf has:
> >
> >deletedprefix: DELETED
> >delete_mode: delayed
> >expunge_mode: delayed
> >
> >/etc/cyrus.conf has:
> >
> >    deleteprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 4 -D 69" at=0430
> >    expungeprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 4 -X 69" at=0445
> >
> >but I don't know where to look to see if these are running. I
> >can't see any errors in the logs (but am unsure where these should
> >be - cyrus seems to post to /var/log/maillog, is that right?)
> >
> >I su'd into cyrus and ran cyr_expire manually, but it returned
> >immediately with no output and didn't seem to make any difference.
> >
> >On several web pages it mentions The expiration of messages is
> >controlled by the */vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire* mailbox
> >annotation, but I can't figure out how to list this and see if
> >it's currently set. I'm not at my most confident with IMAP to be
> >honest.
> >
> >
> >Any help?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tom.
> 
> I found the -a option on cyr_expire to ignore the annotations, but
> that didn't help. Today  I ran cyr_expire -X 1 -v -a and it's still
> saying
> 
> $ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -X 4 -v -a
> Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 4.00 days
> 
> Expired 0 and expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes
> 
> Looking at unexpunge -l user/name at example.com I can see hundreds of
> messages, the Expg date going back to at least the start of March,
> but it still won't delete any.
> 
> I've had no answers anywhere on the internet (and I've not been
> backwards about asking). Do I change the expunge_mode to delete them
> immediately? Will that get rid of the old files at that point or
> will I have to do that manually?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Tom.
> 

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