testing with expunging messages with subject "delete me" this is the correct commend to list expunged messages?
[@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*' Sent messages=0 vsize=0 Drafts messages=0 vsize=0 INBOX/test2 messages=0 vsize=0 Junk messages=0 vsize=0 Trash messages=0 vsize=0 test3 messages=0 vsize=0 test1 messages=0 vsize=0 INBOX messages=0 vsize=0 We have a few messages with subject 'delete me' in the inbox namespace [@ ~]# doveadm search -u testtest mailbox test1 subject 'delete me' | wc -l 4 [@ ~]# doveadm search -u testtest mailbox INBOX/test2 subject 'delete me' | wc -l 2 [@ ~]# doveadm search -u testtest mailbox test3 subject 'delete me' | wc -l 8 Disk space used [@ testtest]# du -s -k /home/popusers/testtest/mdbox/storage/ 135356 /home/popusers/testtest/mdbox/storage/ Ok lets expunge some emails [@ testtest]# doveadm expunge -u testtest mailbox test1 subject 'delete me' doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test1, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test1, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test1, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test1, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> [@ testtest]# doveadm expunge -u testtest mailbox INBOX/test2 subject 'delete me' doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/test2, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/test2, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> [@ testtest]# doveadm expunge -u testtest mailbox test3 subject 'delete me' doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> doveadm(testtest): Info: expunge: box=test3, msgid=<202011052050.0a5ko7jc005...@web01.xxxxxx.xxxx> Looks like the correct amount of messages are deleted [@ testtest]# du -s -k /home/popusers/testtest/mdbox/storage/ 135356 /home/popusers/testtest/mdbox/storage/ Lets check the expunged mail, again still everywhere 0 [@ testtest]# doveadm -o mail_location=mdbox_deleted:/home/popusers/testtest/mdbox:INDEX=/home/popindex/testtest/index mailbox status -u testtest 'messages vsize' '*' Sent messages=0 vsize=0 Drafts messages=0 vsize=0 INBOX/test2 messages=0 vsize=0 Junk messages=0 vsize=0 Trash messages=0 vsize=0 test3 messages=0 vsize=0 test1 messages=0 vsize=0 INBOX messages=0 vsize=0 This does not return any messages, so they were expunged. [@ testtest]# doveadm search -u testtest mailbox test3 subject 'delete me' How can I get the amount of messages expunged in the folders? I do not get it.