[Dovecot] the right way to delete mailbox/user home

[Davide Vaghetti]

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Dear list,

we are using dovecot with mdbox to provide mail services for a community
of 1000 academic users. We have quite a big turnover of guest users, so
we often have to deprovision the allocated resources, that is the
mailboxes. Given that the users are virtual, and that the mdbox
directory is located in the home directory of each virtual user (static
userdb), is it ok to simply delete (rm -rf) the home directory to get
rid of the mailbox? Could the delete, without say a dovecot reload, be
harmful for dovecot processes and the like?

thanks
davide
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Dott. Davide Vaghetti
Centro Servizi Informatici Facolta' di Ingegneria
Universita' di Pisa
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