We converted from v.2.0.? to v.3.0.? last year. We accepted the default settings for delete/expunge. Now we have suspicions that deleted and expunged email is not actually being deleted from the file system and the space recovered.
Looking at the man page for cyr_expire I see this: The expiration of messages is controlled by the /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire mailbox annotation which specifies the age (in days) of messages in the given mailbox that should be deleted. A value of 0 means that no expiration is to be performed on that mailbox. The value of the /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire annotation is inherited by all children of the mailbox on which it is set, so an entire mailbox tree can be configured by setting a single annotation on the root of that tree. If a mailbox does not have a /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire annotation set on it (or does not inherit one), then no messages are expired from the mailbox. The annotation can be examined using the info command of cyradm(8), and modified using the mboxconfig and setinfo commands of cyradm(8). The following is a representative user mailbox on our server: info user/usrname {user/usrname}: private: check: NIL checkperiod: NIL comment: NIL sort: NIL specialuse: NIL thread: NIL expire: NIL news2mail: NIL sieve: NIL squat: NIL shared: check: NIL checkperiod: NIL comment: NIL sort: NIL specialuse: NIL thread: NIL annotsize: 0 duplicatedeliver: false expire: NIL lastpop: NIL lastupdate: 15-May-2019 04:16:08 -0400 news2mail: NIL partition: default pop3newuidl: true pop3showafter: NIL sharedseen: false sieve: NIL size: 2105288 squat: NIL synccrcs: 1325519995 0 uniqueid: 6bcd81f457596d11 Our cyrus.conf file has this: delprune cmd="cyr_expire -D 180d -E 3d -X 180d" at=0400 My question is: When are message files actually removed from our server's the file system and the space recovered? Is there a setting or utility option required to perform this action / accomplish this result? How does one verify the removal? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus