So, along with the problem of lots of folders ending in 1 1 1 1, I'd like to have a strategy to delete these.
I was trying to understand if it is possible to use http://linux.die.net/man/1/doveadm-expunge to delete empty folders, but without also deleting messages? Is this possible and if so what is the syntax?
Kind regards, Samuel
Hello Samuel,
with mdbox as Maildir no direct file operations should beperforms. For empty mailboxes that will ever happen, the "doveadm mailbox delete" deletes the emails, if required in the mailbox.
Hardy
Am 21.03.2015 um 11:48 schrieb Samuel Williams:
Thanks Hardy. I have 1600 folders to delete.. in the end I did find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rm -r {} \;
Hi Hardy, I had over 1600 folders, writing manually doveadm mailbox delete would be a real pain. I guess I could script it but that's even more of a pain. It would be nice if there was a command to remove empty mailboxes or something similar.
On 22 March 2015 at 07:50, Hardy Flor <HFlor@gmx.de> wrote:
Le 2015-04-01 01:16, Samuel Williams a écrit :
Hi Samuel,
you could do: find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rmdir {} \;
instead of rm -r, this will delete only really empty directories (no files, no hidden files).
Have a good day,
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On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:15 AM, Bertrand Caplet <bertrand.caplet@chunkz.net> wrote:
find /path/to/clean -type d -empty -delete
-- 'You don't think you've had enough, do you?' he said. I KNOW WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH. 'Everyone says that, though. I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH. --Moving Pictures
An administrator should be able to write a small script from my first post in this thread (to the search of empty mailboxes and the command to delete), in order to not having to access the files.
Hardy
Am 01.04.2015 um 11:28 schrieb @lbutlr:
find /path/to/clean -type d -empty -delete
I don't think there's any use of a script if "find /path/to/clean -type d -empty -delete" works fine.
Have a nice evening,
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