[Dovecot] delete message with specified id

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Fri Dec 6 09:41:12 EET 2013


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On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Костырев Александр Алексеевич wrote:

> Could someone help me to find a way to delete message with certain id from all users's mailboxes?

I think, this should do it [test, before killing your users messages ;-) 
]:

doveadm [-Dv] expunge [-S socket_path] [-d] -u user HEADER Message-ID '<msgid>'

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Expunge

doveadm-expunge - Expunge messages matching given search query

To see the messages and performance:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Search

doveadm-search - Show a list of mailbox GUIDs and message UIDs matching 
given search query.

same command line, but "search" instead of "expunge"

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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