[Dovecot] Deleting mail account?
David Reid
david at jetnet.co.uk
Mon May 25 20:08:27 EEST 2009
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, David Reid wrote:
>> I'd like to be able to do it all via a web interface and dovecot to
>> keep the admin to a minimum. I've seen the delete function in IMAP,
>> but it fails when I try and remove the INBOX.
>
> So you want to remove a whole account?
>
> You'll need to disable (or even remove, but I wouldn't recommend that)
> in you authentication database. How it is done depends on which kind of
> authentication you are using.
I can do this part no problem as it's MySQL.
> Then, if you want to delete all the mails for that account, just remove
> the folders where they are stored. This is specified by the
> mail_location setting in dovecot.conf.
This part is where I was hoping there was a way to get dovecot to remove
the mails for me... Is that possible? If not I guess I need to look at
other ways of dealing with it.
Thanks,
david
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