On Jun 6, 2024, at 11:00 AM, Jason Hirsh kasdivi@mac.com wrote:

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On Jun 6, 2024, at 3:10 AM, Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com wrote:

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On 06/06/2024 04:11 EEST Jason Hirsh via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:

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From: Jason Hirsh kasdivi@mac.com Subject: Can't Empty Inbox that is Over quota Date: June 3, 2024 at 8:15:53 PM EDT To: dovecot@dovecot.org

I have been trying to update my Postix/Dovecot/MySQL?Postfixadmin installation

I am currently on Dovecot. 2.3.2.1

I used the guide set forth in Purplehat.org http://purplehat.org/ which is what got me in trouble as I am in between with setup. (He went off to Maria-db and NGINX I stayed with Apache and MySQL

What has happened is may Dovecot Mailboxes are super super saturated. adI inadvertently allowed email from an alarm

Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 239754 5120 4682 User quota MESSAGE 882 -

I tried to empty with the command

sudo doveadm expunge -A mailbox INBOX ALL

I get this error

Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users.

Is there anyway I can remove Dovecot from my server and reinstalll it? It is so messed up I don’t care about losing data

um.. you have multiple issues.

First of all, try

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sudo doveadm expunge -u targetuser mailbox INBOX ALL

Ok I tried that ,,say its ran but postfixadmn shows the mailbox WAY quote and new message to tha user are being rejected

"Your message to mailto:jason@kasdivi.com> was automatically rejected: Storage quota for this account has been exceeded, please try again later.Reporting-MTA: dns; triggerfish.theoceanwindow.com http://triggerfish.theoceanwindow.com/ Final-Recipient: rfc822; jason@kasdivi.com mailto:jason@kasdivi.com Action: failed Status: 5.2.2”

So on to

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rf /path/to/user/home

It all went away. By mail doesn’t not work. Postfixadmin still shows sett is over limited. I try deleting and get a

Problems running mailbox postdeletion script! The mailbox postdeletion script failed, check the error log for details!

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-A means all users, and it only works if your userdb iteration works.

If you truly do not care about user data and want just get rid of it, you can just rm -rf /path/to/user/home

Aki