Deleting messages from filesystem with sdbox mail format

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 11/05/2020 19:48 Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote:
> 
>  
> Il 2020-05-11 17:41 Aki Tuomi ha scritto:
> > The index will be rebuilt once you try to access the mail.
> 
> Hi Aki, I probably misunderstood yor previous reply. So, the index will 
> be fixed when either:
> - running doveadm force-sync
> - accessing the mailbox (ie: via IMAP).
> 
> This means that removing an email from the filesystem (ie: a u.* file) 
> and the index cache file (dovecot.index.cache) should be safe, as the 
> main index file (dovecot.index) will be fixed when accessing the 
> mailbox.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Danti Gionatan
> Supporto Tecnico

Except now you lost the cache. Which is not really necessary. Why not use 'doveadm expunge -u victim mailbox box uid number' instead? The uid number is same as the number in file name.

Aki