On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 09:57 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
IMHO it would be great if we could both provision and un-provision users without having the provisioning system mess with files in the filesystem. Provisioning new users works fine since dovecot will create all files/directories on first login, but I haven´t found the tools to un-provison them. I see "doveadm mailbox delete" can delete individual mailboxes, but what about indexes, sieve-scripts and home-directories? Are there any tools to clean out these ?
Do you have all of those files in separate directories? Normally I'd think everything is under home dir, so you can just:
rm -rf doveadm user -f home $username
For deleting indexes and other dirs that are not under home.. well.. I guess you'll need some more scripting.
Anyway, I don't think there's any good and safe way to just go delete user's directories. Especially home dir.