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?
Thanks in advance.
roberto
Roberto Pereyra a écrit :
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.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008, mouss wrote:
Roberto Pereyra a écrit :
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
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Roberto Pereyra