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

On 15 Jun 2024, at 10:53, Binarus wrote:

> At first, thanks for your answer, and sorry for the delay.
>
> On 10.06.2024 12:20, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>> The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure that Thunderbird has actually compacted the folders.
>
> I always thought that a message gets the "Deleted" flag assigned when I delete it in TB, and that cyr_expire can be used to purge all messages that have this flag set.

You thought wrong :-) That’s what EXPUNGE is for. I guess in Thunderbird the operation is called "compact". There are 3 ways of deleting messages in Thunderbird. If you use the one that only marks the messages as deleted, you need to actually expunge them somehow.

> Would you mind shortly explaining why it is necessary to have TB compact the respective folder before using cyr_expire?

Because cyr_expire expires *expunged* messages, not ones with the \Deleted flag.

Regards,
Sebastian
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