Hi dovecot mailing list people,
After having looked through the mailing list archives, tried various search engines & asked an LLM to hallucinate an answer all to no avail, I now pose the following question to you all:
For a Dovecot 2.4 system that uses mail_driver = mdbox for regular
mailboxes and also has a public namespace, how might I invoke the
maintenance routine of doveadm purge against the m.1, m.2 ... m.N
files under the mail_path location?
Below is the snippet of what I have in the configuration files for the public namespace:
namespace public { type = public separator = / prefix = Public/ mail_path = /var/spool/mail/Public mail_index_private_path = ~/public subscriptions = yes mailbox "communal" { auto = subscribe } }
Since my dovecot instance is a self-hosted matter, I am in a position to move all mail data out of there, delete any left over storage files and change the mail_driver to Maildir, if that is the easiest way to manage the risk of dbox m file sprawl/growth.
Best regards, Luke