deleting maildata from virtual users

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Jan 4 10:30:01 EET 2021


> On 04/01/2021 10:18 Alexander Rivanykov <screenie at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
>  
>  I'm running a redundant mailsystem dovecot where i'm using dsync to replicate maildata between both nodes.
>  How do i properly delete mail data from a virtual user when it get's removed from the db on both nodes?
>  For usermanagement i'm using postfixadmin and can run a postdeletion script and can login into both nodes and manually delete the mail data but wonder if there is a better solution.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Alex

You can also use `doveadm expunge` to delete all mail, but manual rm -rf works just as well.

Aki


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