zamri wrote:
> Thanks. I got it. Some more to clear...
>
> In many clients, the mails deleted are not actually *deleted*. It is
> moved to Trash folder. I think they are not marked as DELETE at this
> point right? When we delete the mails in Trash folder, then they are
> marked as DELETE right? after that we have to run dbmail-util -dy to
> mark them as PURGE? then run once again to actually delete them. am i
> right?
No. You need to run dbmail-util -py to actually delete messages marked
PURGE from the database.
>
> Is there any way to jump from from status 2 to actually delete them?
> dbmail-util -py ?
dbmail-util -py will only delete messages set to status 3
to jump from status=2 to full deletion do:
dbmail-util -dy
dbmail-util -py
after each other.
>
> On 3/23/06, *Matthew Sayler* < sayler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:sayler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:44:29PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> > zamri wrote:
> > > I am not completely understand the deletion process. If a mail get
> > > deleted, it is not deleted but just marked PURGE?.
> >
> > It is marked DELETE.
> >
> > > The administrator
> > > should run cron job to clean on an interval. If this is not run, the
> > > mail will not be deleted ?
> >
> > Correct. The message will remain in status DELETE.
> >
> > > what is the status 2 and 3?
> >
> > status DELETE = 2: message is marked for deletion
> > status PURGE = 3: message is marked for final removal
> >
> > So:
> >
> > IMAP command DELETE sets a message status=2
> >
> > dbmail-util -dy sets the message status=3
> > dbmail-util -py removes the message all together.
>
> zamri:
>
> Also note that if you run dbmail-util -ay daily (as recommended by
> the install
> instructions) this means that messages will be removed from the
> database
> after 2 days (day 1 status => 3, day 2 => purge). It's a nice bit of
> insurance, IMO.
>
> Matt
>
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