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 -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The pinnacle of open systems is: when moving from vendor to vendor, the design flaws stay the same.