[Dovecot] Administrative mailbox deletions

Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Jun 4 14:33:34 EEST 2013


>> and "doveadm mailbox delete" doesn't like it.
>>
>> Does anyone have the magic sauce needed to escape the - character?
>
> An "escaping" that works at the *nix level (not necessarily with
> doveadm, but I would assume it works there too) is, e.g.,
>
>     rm -- -foo
>
> i.e., double dashes to nullify the "-" option flag, followed by the
> filename.


That does work. Thanks.

Alan





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