Thanks Hardy. I have 1600 folders to delete.. in the end I did find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rm -r {} \;

On 21 March 2015 at 21:22, Hardy Flor <HFlor@gmx.de> wrote:

With doveadm mailbox status -u ... messages"*" There is a list of folders and the number of messages and then with doveadm mailbox delete -u ... "<name>" to delete.

Am 20.03.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Samuel Williams:

So, along with the problem of lots of folders ending in 1 1 1 1, I'd like

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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

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:

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:

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Thanks Hardy. I have 1600 folders to delete.. in the end I did find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rm -r {} \;

On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:15 AM, Bertrand Caplet <bertrand.caplet@chunkz.net> wrote:

Le 2015-04-01 01:16, Samuel Williams a écrit :

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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.

Hi Samuel,

you could do: find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rmdir {} \;

find /path/to/clean -type d -empty -delete

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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

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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Ah, Timo, that is what I was thinking of.

doveadm expunge -d mailbox '*' not all