[Dovecot] \Deleted and expunge

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 26 22:28:11 EEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 21:37, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> I deleted a message by storing the \Deleted flag and called expunge. The 
> message was deleted then, but in the file dovecot-uidlist the filename 
> of that message is still listed, even after logging out and in again, 
> doing select and check. When will this file be updated?

It's only used for figuring out UIDs for existing files, so entries for
expunged mails are just ignored. It's updated whenever new messages are
written there, the old entries are removed then.

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