Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Crispin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Joel Reicher wrote: I run a small home mail server for my family. One of them uses a Blackberry to access her email. In order to permit a burp to happen from time-to-time, could I occasionally bring down uw-imap, physically unplug my Ethernet, bring up uw-imap and wait a

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-18 Thread Dave Halsema
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:55:45 From: Mark Crispin markrcris...@panda.com To: Joel Reicher joel+imap...@panacea.null.org Cc: imap-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email? On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Joel Reicher wrote: I run a small home mail server for my family

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Crispin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Dave Halsema wrote: I can give a thumbs up to Mark's hack to allow burping when BlackBerry devices are involved. It is working for us and we will be making it available here soon. Thank you for your advice and help Mark, it is much appreciated. Contributions are always

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-18 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Mark Crispin wrote: Basically, I did what you do by port redirection via code in imapd itself. Any client coming from a *.blackberry.com source gets a blackberry flag switched on internally in imapd which then activates the hack. I'm not sure if trying to enumerate all

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Crispin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, David B Funk wrote: FWIW, we see *.blackberry.net as well as *.blackberry.com IMAP connections on our server. Thanks for that information. I've updated my server to match *.blackberry.net as well as *.blackberry.com One of the hacks I've made to our UW-imap kit is to

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-17 Thread Joel Reicher
I run a small home mail server for my family. One of them uses a Blackberry to access her email. In order to permit a burp to happen from time-to-time, could I occasionally bring down uw-imap, physically unplug my Ethernet, bring up uw-imap and wait a while (?) for a burp to happen, then

[Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-16 Thread Haral Tsitsivas
How do I expunge old deleted email? It seems that the mailbox grows and grows but it no longer contracts (it did so at the beginning, but now the file size is near 300MB and it never contracts). I am running imap-2007e on Solaris 2.8, and users are using Thunderbird on Windows XP and Vista

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Crispin
Your message indicates confusion on multiple points. The following information ought to clear up your confusion AND answer your questions: [1] There are three separate operations associated with the removal of a message: [a] Marking a message as deleted (deleting) [b] Removing

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-16 Thread Haral Tsitsivas
Confusion? Guilty... and thanks for the detailed explanation... However that still leaves me with the question: how do I burp this baby? An added complication may be that Blackberry polls the imap server for my messages periodically so the file may be periodically open by other processes. I

Re: [Imap-uw] expunge previously deleted email?

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Haral Tsitsivas wrote: However that still leaves me with the question: how do I burp this baby? Burping happens automatically whenever the mailbox is opened exclusively read-write. An added complication may be that Blackberry polls the imap server for my messages