Re: cyr_deliver not deleting messages from file system - what am I doing wrong?

The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure that Thunderbird has 
actually compacted the folders.


If you run this, do you get the expected number of messages?

unexpunge -l user.ton|grep UID|wc -l


Change UID to Expg and remove "wc -l" in the above command to see when 
the messages were expunged.


On 6/10/24 05:34, Binarus wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> on one my Cyrus imapd installations, I am running out of disk space. 
> Solving the problem the right way will take some days, so I decided to 
> delete about 100,000 messages as a first measure (those messages 
> definitely don't need to be kept any longer). I have used Thunderbird to 
> delete those messages (of course, I have not moved them to trash, but 
> have really deleted them), and afterwards have used cyrdump to verify 
> that they actually are flagged as deleted.
> 
> To finally free up the space on the disk, I wanted to use cyr_expire. 
> However, the output of
> 
> /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -D 60s -E 60s -X 60s -v
> 
> only told me that nothing happened (last lines of the very lengthy 
> output, empty lines partly omitted):
> 
> 
> ...
> cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton
> cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Drafts
> cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Junk
> cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Sent
> cleaning up expunged messages in user.ton.Trash
> 
> Expired 0 and expunged 0 out of 293918 messages from 3867 mailboxes
> 
> Removing deleted mailboxes older than 0.00 days
> 
> Removed 0 deleted mailboxes
> 
> 
> Of course, after having deleted the messages in Thunderbird, I have 
> waited several minutes before I have issued the command mentioned above.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea why cyr_expire refuses to purge the deleted 
> messages?
> 
> I have to add that no MUA or other client was connected to the server 
> when I have issued the command. The Cyrus imapd version is 3.2.3, the OS 
> is Debian 11.9 / amd64.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance,
> 
> Binarus
> 



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