I realise that there have been posts about this in the past, but they were some time ago. Has any progress been made on this or is there a fix?

I've recently set IMAP_EMPTYTRASH to 1, so that the Trash folder gets cleared every week. I have also set IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to 1 (see below). I've just done

# ls -l .maildir/.Trash/cur/

and found that there are files that date back to October 1 (I assume that this is when they were deleted - I remember deleting them ages ago). My Trash folder doesn't seem to get emptied.

Here is my /etc/courier-imap-imapd:

ADDRESS=0 PORT=143 MAXDAEMONS=40 MAXPERIP=4 PIDFILE=/var/run/imapd.pid TCPDOPTS="-nodnslookup -noidentlookup" AUTHMODULES="authdaemon" AUTHMODULES_ORIG="authdaemon" DEBUG_LOGIN=0 IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE" IMAP_KEYWORDS=1 IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-SHA1 IDLE" IMAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT=60 IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS="$IMAP_CAPABILITY AUTH=PLAIN" IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS_ORIG="$IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG AUTH=PLAIN" IMAP_DISABLETHREADSORT=0 IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS=1 IMAP_OBSOLETE_CLIENT=0 IMAP_ULIMITD=65536 IMAP_USELOCKS=1 IMAP_SHAREDINDEXFILE=/etc/courier-imap/shared/index IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE=1 IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME=Trash IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Spam:7 IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=1 SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail HEADERFROM=X-IMAP-Sender IMAPDSTART=YES MAILDIR=.maildir MAILDIRPATH=.maildir PRERUN=

I'm running gentoo-amd64, courier-imap-3.0.8, kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r6, arch. x86_64.

Could somebody please let me know what is going on. I wish to have "Purged" messages (Outlook Express) moved to the Trash folder, then automatically deleted 7 days later.