Aw: Re: deleting maildata from virtual users

[Alexander Rivanykov]

Will this also take care of any dependencies?
For example if one of the folders are shared with other users?

Thanks,
Alex

 

 

Gesendet: Montag, 04. Januar 2021 um 09:30 Uhr
Von: "Aki Tuomi" <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com>
An: "Alexander Rivanykov" <scree...@gmx.at>, dovecot@dovecot.org
Betreff: Re: deleting maildata from virtual users

> On 04/01/2021 10:18 Alexander Rivanykov <scree...@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