Can we delete maildir files directly from the file system?
Yes.
Does this also go for special folders inside a maildir? Like, for example, the .Trash folder? I have a user who was trying to delete about 30,000 messages from a folder, and when he did this, TBird went into never-never land, and now every time he clicks on the Trash folder in TBird, it goes into never-never land again. I have already deleted the local cache files from his TBird profile, so there is something wrong on the server side.
I don't have much experience manually manipulating maildirs, so would appreciate comments...
What I was going to do was first delete the folder:
rm -ri /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir/.Trash
then once it is all gone, do:
maildirmake -f Trash /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir
By the way, if it matters, this server is still running Courier I'm sorry to say, but I think they're ready to let me migrate them to dovecot now that it has reached 'stable' status.
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Best regards,
Charles