Brian,
Cool. Someone else that's using a Slackware system. Mine is
Slackware-current. :)
It sounds to me as if Netscape isn't doing an expunge. From my
understanding of the IMAP protocol and how Cyrus implements it, no messages
are actually deleted until an expunge operation is requested by the client.
What happens is that the Delete flag is set, only. I think that both
Netscape and Pine aren't seeing them because the Delete flag has been set
in some prior session, but I could well be wrong. (If I am, I hope someone
will correct me.)
I'm not sure what might be happening here, but one suggestion is to try
using a client that allows Deleted messages to be explicitely Expunged, and
see what happens to your mail store on disk, then. One such client is
Mulberry, which has Windows, Mac and Linux versions available. I don't
really know of any others, although I'm sure there are some.
If the explicitely called Expunge works, then I'd say it's a client issue.
If the Expunge does not work, and the messages you expect to have been
deleted are still on your drive, then there might be some mis-configuration
or bug somewhere in your Cyrus install. I've not had any problems with mine
that I've noticed, so far.
Hope this helps,
Will
William Hardeman
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--On Saturday, December 23, 2000 21:09:33 -0500 Brian Capouch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just finished installing cyrus 2.0.9 on a Slackware Linux system. I
> had the same problems reported earlier today getting cyradm to install
> properly; I finally resorted to going to another machine running an
> earlier beta (2.0.7) and then manually copying files out of the ~/perl
> directory into the various perl5 system locations. Now it works like a
> charm.
>
> System, if it's germane to anyone, is Linux Slackware 7.0 running
> 2.4.0-test12.
>
> Now my question: I am the only user on this box for the time being. I
> want to make sure things are stable before moving any of my other users
> over.
>
> I seem to be able to receive messages just fine, and sieve is running
> (out of my home directory). However, I notice that the various messages
> I have received, then moved to the Trash and then later "emptied" out
> via Netscape, are still there in the cyrus user directory where they
> were initially delivered. Stated different, even though my IMAP client
> can't see them, *I* can if I manually go into the cyrus directory space
> and "ls"
>
> Is this to be expected? They don't show up when I look at my IMAP mail
> from either Netscape or Pine, and I'm hoping perhaps that they get
> purged by some other entity.
>
> But I don't think 2.0.7 did that. Can anyone tell me for sure?
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.
>
