Re: [CentOS] Delete all mail users data (mail server)

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008, mouss wrote:

Roberto Pereyra a écrit :

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Hi

Please I would like to delete all users date mail (not accounts) in my mail server box.

I using Centos 5 and Virtualmin with postifx (maildir) and dovecot and sasl auth.

Once I erased simply the files in the maildir folders and broke the dovecot setup (dovecot cache or index).

Which is the correct way of doing it?

delete files from cur/ and new/ subdirs is enough. deleting index files is good but dovecot will regenerate them anyway.

A somewhat more sophisticated approach might be to clean out old files using find. This would remove everything over 30 days old from username's Maildir.

find ~usrname/Maildir/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm

Bill