Clean up several mailboxes but keep directories untouch

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  1. W-C

    W-C Member

    Hello,

    I need to clean up several mailbox accounts from the server, Is there anyway to delete the mails from a specific user mailbox via command line?. If so, could you please provide me the steps to properly delete the mails without affect the directories created by postfix?.

    Linux Distro: Centos 6.3
    ISPConfig Version: 3.0.4.1

    Thanks in advance...
     
    Last edited: Jun 8, 2017
    W-C, Jun 8, 2017
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  2. Jesse Norell

    Jesse Norell ISPConfig Developer Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    You don't say if you're using courier or dovecot, but if dovecot you would use the doveadm command. You use 'expunge' to delete mail, and 'doveadm expunge' requires a mailbox name, so you must loop through them, eg.
    Code:
    doveadm mailbox list -u [email protected] | while read mbox; do echo doveadm expunge -u [email protected] "${mbox}" all; done
     
    Jesse Norell, Jun 12, 2017
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  3. W-C

    W-C Member

    Hello Jesse,
    We are using courier-imap, sorry my bad I forgot this big detail.

    Thanks
     
    W-C, Jun 12, 2017
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  4. Jesse Norell

    Jesse Norell ISPConfig Developer Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Dunno for courier offhand, I suspect just rm the files (and recalculate or clean up maildirsize file if you care about quotas). I'm sure google searches will find some info if noone else replies here.
     
    Jesse Norell, Jun 12, 2017
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  5. W-C

    W-C Member

    I been searching for this in google for some time but without luck, anyway thanks for all your help.
     
    W-C, Jun 12, 2017
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