Can't recursively delete mailboxes
Hi,
This appears to be some sort of dovecot bug. When I use the -r option to recursively delete a mailbox and sub-folders, it removes the sub-folders but not the inbox. It gives me the error below:
doveadm mailbox delete -u denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au -r -s inbox doveadm(denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au): Error: Can't delete mailbox inbox: INBOX can't be deleted.
Our user database is in ldap and I am using dovecot-ee v2:2.2.31.2-1. Could you please acknowledge that this is a bug or let me know the correct way of recursively deleting a mailbox as there is nothing in the man page about the -r option.
Thanks
Murray
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Murray T. | Dreamscape wrote:
This appears to be some sort of dovecot bug. When I use the -r option to recursively delete a mailbox and sub-folders, it removes the sub-folders but not the inbox. It gives me the error below:
doveadm mailbox delete -u denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au -r -s inbox doveadm(denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au): Error: Can't delete mailbox inbox: INBOX can't be deleted.
Our user database is in ldap and I am using dovecot-ee v2:2.2.31.2-1. Could you please acknowledge that this is a bug or let me know the correct way of recursively deleting a mailbox as there is nothing in the man page about the -r option.
It's on purpose:
if (mailbox_is_any_inbox(box)) {
/* IMAP protocol allows this, but I think it's safer to
not allow it. */
mailbox_free(&box);
client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO INBOX can't be deleted.");
return TRUE;
}Why do you want to delete the INBOX of the user?
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Hi Steffen,
Thanks for the reply. We have a regular need to purge mailboxes completely. Our users delete the mailboxes through a GUI and we use a script to delete the mailbox via a doveadm mailbox delete command. We need the mailbox and contents completely removed to prevent orphaned mailboxes lying around to save us disk storage. The user also expects the mailbox and its contents to be removed. We are currently using the command below to try and purge the contents of the mailbox but it doesn't seem to always purge all the contents.
doveadm -o doveadm_password=$doveadm_pass expunge -S $mailstore:24245 -u $mail mailbox '*' all"
When I saw there was a new -r option to doveadm mailbox delete I thought that would do what we need but it doesn't appear so. Please let me know if there is another way we can remove mailbox and all of its sub-folders and contents via doveadm.
Thanks
Murray
-----Original Message----- From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de] Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2017 3:27 PM To: Murray T. | Dreamscape murray.t@dreamscapenetworks.com Cc: 'dovecot@dovecot.org' dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Can't recursively delete mailboxes
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Murray T. | Dreamscape wrote:
This appears to be some sort of dovecot bug. When I use the -r option to recursively delete a mailbox and sub-folders, it removes the sub-folders but not the inbox. It gives me the error below:
doveadm mailbox delete -u denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au -r -s inbox doveadm(denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au): Error: Can't delete mailbox inbox: INBOX can't be deleted.
Our user database is in ldap and I am using dovecot-ee v2:2.2.31.2-1. Could you please acknowledge that this is a bug or let me know the correct way of recursively deleting a mailbox as there is nothing in the man page about the -r option.
It's on purpose:
if (mailbox_is_any_inbox(box)) {
/* IMAP protocol allows this, but I think it's safer to
not allow it. */
mailbox_free(&box);
client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO INBOX can't be deleted.");
return TRUE;
}Why do you want to delete the INBOX of the user?
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On 17 Aug 2017, at 9.31, Murray T. | Dreamscape murray.t@dreamscapenetworks.com wrote:
doveadm mailbox delete -u denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au mailto:denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au -r -s inbox doveadm(denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au mailto:denise@lifelinetechnique.com.au): Error: Can't delete mailbox inbox: INBOX can't be deleted.
I guess you're using Maildir format? With that INBOX can't be deleted, because the Maildir root directory is the INBOX directly. With other mailbox formats it would work. And I think if you used mail_location = ...:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX or something like that, it would also work.
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Murray T. | Dreamscape
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Steffen Kaiser
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