I turned on lazy_expunge and configured a namespace following the wiki[0] instructions for mdbox configuration: namespace { inbox = yes location prefix separator = . } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location prefix = INBOX. separator = . } namespace { location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged prefix = EXPUNGED. separator = . } This created an EXPUNGED mailbox in my client (thunderbird), which was greyed out. When I deleted things, they got put in the EXPUNGED mailbox, as expected, but I could not access them to try and "restore" them. The server would say that the mailbox did not exist. micah 0. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20111007/fa0b966e/attachment-0004.bin>