Messages inaccessible

[mordrid]

Hi,

We have one account that is saying that there are 1259 messages in the inbox but when the account is accessed from Outlook Express or the WebGUI only the first 60 or so are listed and therefore accessible. This is causing this user a problem as they keep reaching their quota, yes this could be increased but the messages are still inaccessible.

There are no errors that we can see in the logs. We have re-indexed the mailbox and it has made no difference. We tried to purge the messages by setting the global lifetime to 30 days but the messages remain after the purge.

[phoenix]

I'm not quite sure if you are saying the messages are actually there but can't view them or they don't exist. Has this user accessed his mailbox with an IMAP client such as Thunderbird? If they have ask them to compact (expunge) the folder and see if the message count is reset to the correct value.

[mordrid]

The size of the account would indicate that the messages are there but not accessible.

I will get them to try thunderbird and see what happens with the message count etc.

Many thanks

Damian

[mordrid]

Opening it with Thunderbird and compacting the folder has corrected the problem. The space has been reclaimed and message count is now correct.

Any ideas what caused this?

Many thanks for your help

Damian

[phoenix]

Yes, it's an IMAP 'problem'. The messages are marked for deletion but not removed unless the user does a compact (expunge) of the mailbox which is what actually removes the marked messages.