[Dovecot] Administrative mailbox deletions

Jan-Frode Myklebust janfrode at tanso.net
Tue Jun 4 14:14:18 EEST 2013


On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:58:50AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote:
> 
> 
> One user has named all his mailboxes with leading hyphens.
> 
> ie:
> 
> -foo
> -bar
> -bazz

> Does anyone have the magic sauce needed to escape the - character?

No idea what you've tried, but maybe '--' is enough?

	doveadm mailbox delete -u $user -- -foo


  -jf


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