Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 23:04 -0500 schrieb SH Development:
Yes, that is the format I’m using. Just didn’t know if there was a dovecot command that should be used. Just making sure before I start rm’ing stuff.
Jeff
On Jun 12, 2015, at 7:02 PM, admin admin@awib.it wrote:
Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 15:57 -0500 schrieb SH Development:
What is the correct way to delete mailboxes that no longer have a database entry?
Jeff
What format are you using to store mails? Are you using Maildir? Then it should just be as easy as to simply rm the user's folder - in my case '/var/mail/domain.xy/user', which always worked out for me.
-M
Actually there is something that might be what you are looking for:
Mailbox Delete
doveadm mailbox delete [-A|-u user|-F file] [-S socket_path]
[-s] mailbox ...
This command deletes a mailbox and expunges all the messages it
contains. If the mailbox has any children, they won't be
deleted.
When the -s option is present, the deleted mailboxes will be
also unsubscribed.
(http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox)But I never used it. Actually tried once but if I remember correctly it did not work for some reason - could have been related to the inability to find the mailbox in the DB, as I - like you already did - removed the mailbox from the DB. But I think the above command is meant to be used for active, non-orphaned mailboxes.
However I still have 7z'ed backups of my deleted mailboxes that I store for some months until I have the feeling that also their time has come.