Incremental purge?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Sep 2 13:53:40 EEST 2020


> On 02/09/2020 13:51 Vitalii <vnagara at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> > > On 24/08/2020 08:30 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I would be personally interested in incremental purge per user. My
> > > personal IMAP account, for instance, has at this moment about 40GB
> > > of mdbox files. I keep most of my email for decades, but sure I
> > > could free some space doing a purge, but I am scared of trying with
> > > 200.000 mdbox files without knowing how long it would take.
> 
> 
> I believe you can try to dsync your mdbox account to a new one and then
> replace it with purged.

You can already do incremental purge per user. Just call the purge command with one user at a time, or user list.

Aki


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