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

[Bill Campbell]

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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