On 2017-01-16 (08:48 MST), Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 07:03:49AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
>> Not sure if anyone will find this useful, but this is how I deleted a bunch
>> (several hundred) of empty mail folders from a user account:
>>
>> # doveadm mailbox status -u “u...@example.com" messages "*" ALL | grep "=0"
>> | awk -F= '{print $1}' | awk '{print "rm -rf ."$1}' > list
>>
>> then I looked over list just to be sure it wasn’t mucked up and in the users
>> root maildir:
>>
>> # sh < list
>>
>> and done.
>>
>> I probably could do some research on how to combine those two awk pipes but
>> this worked, and it was fast.
>
> You may also want to *consider* removing those mailboxes from your
> subscriptions, too. I ran into this recently and IMAP considers the list of
> folders that exist and the list of folders that are subscribed to be separate
> entities.
Good point. I didn’t look at this for two reasons. 1) My mail client doesn’t;t
support subscriptions 2) I was removing empty folders from a account that was
acting as a backup for all the emails from a domain.
That said, it’s a good idea.
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