[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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