Delete all mail users data

General Discussion
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Hi

Please I would like to delete all users date mail (not accounts) in my virtualmin box.

I using Centos 5 and the default install (default install script).

Once I erased simply the files in the maildir folders and broke the dovecot setup (dovecot cache).

Which is the correct way of doing it?

Thanks in advance.

roberto

2

Also delete the dovecot cache/index files. :wink:

Dovecot will regenerate its cache files automatically on next login by the user.

3

Thanks for your help, I delete the mail data using:

find /home -type f -mtime $days | xargs rm

This would remove everything over $days days old.

That’s remove the dovecot files also.

roberto

4

Careful with that command – that won’t just delete email, that will delete all user files in /home older than $days.

You may want to have it be more specific about what directories to delete email from – for example, all the email exists in a directory called “Maildir”, you could make sure you’re only deleting files from within that.
-Eric