Deleting / Removing users

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Mar 3 07:19:48 UTC 2016


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On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, John Krug wrote:

> To complicate issues, I have two-way dsync running between two servers. 
> Since the index log files are used to track deleted mails (yes?), do I 
> need to worry about replication trying to bring things back?

You've wrote: "users that I’ve removed from LDAP". Do you find any log 
entries of those users generated by dsync? Well, provided you have logs 
from dsync at all.

> Can I just rm the users files from each server and be OK?

That depends on how you invoke dsync.

>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:16 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, John Krug wrote:
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>>> i have a list of users that I’ve removed from LDAP and I want to delete their mail storage.
>>>
>>> sdbox
>>> Dovecot 2.2.15.8
>>>
>>> I have mail messages in one location and indexes in another. Should I just
>>> rm -rf /messages/<username>
>>> rm -rf /indexes/<username>
>>
>> if that's where the mail_location points to. Also check out the home directory of eash user.
>>
>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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Steffen Kaiser
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