How to Delete an user and Purge attachements with a common directory mail_attachment_dir with SIS for all users.

[Alexander Moisseev]

10.02.2015 18:36, TN пишет:
>     What is the best way to delete an user mailbox (ex: /var/mail/johndoe ) when all attachments  (for all users) are in a common directory with SIS deduplication (ex: mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments ) ?
> Trying to delete user mailbox directory (rm) and do the command  : doveadm -v purge -u johndoe    leave  all johndoe's attachments orphelin.
>

You should always expunge mailbox *before* deleting it, if you are using SIS.

# doveadm expunge -d -u johndoe mailbox '*' all
# rm -rf /var/mail/johndoe

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Alexander