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

[Davide Vaghetti]

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On 04/20/2011 05:15 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:36 +0200, Davide Vaghetti wrote:
> 
>> 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? 
> 
> As long as you haven't enabled a separate attachment storage
> (mail_attachment_dir) it's safe to rm -rf.
> 
>> Could the delete, without say a dovecot reload, be
>> harmful for dovecot processes and the like?
> 
> No need to reload or anything. Other than the attachment storage, there
> is no global shared state across users.
> 

Thanks a lot!

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