> On 21/08/2022 13:08 EEST Christian Kivalo <ml+dove...@valo.at> wrote: > > > On August 21, 2022 12:34:46 AM GMT+02:00, Jack Cecil <post...@sysphere.org> > wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Jack Cecil wrote: > > > >> could you help me understand the 'doveadm expunge' feature better? > >> > >> If a Maildir has 20 thousand messages and user is reading it over IMAP I > >> have a suspicion it is not a good idea to be rewriting the dovecot index > >> and cache at the same time. > >> > >> Should I temporarily prevent login (e.g. with passwd-file deny) and then > >> kick them before the expunge? > > > >Hi. Could someone please drop me a hint? I have 309 users that will be very > >angry with me if their Thunderbirds start displaying 0 messages :( > > > >Thanks. > I had never thought about this, i do have some folders for which i expunge > message with doveadm with a cron job, never had a problem. > > What keeps you from testing with a test account to see what happens when you > expunge while logged in? My assumption is, the client will update it's > knowledge of the mailbox on next access or login. > -- > Christian Kivalo
Running doveadm expunge while user is logged in, is safe. Aki
