On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, ram wrote: > I am setting up a cyrus imap server with 40k-80k mailboxes > > I have a particular requirement that some particular messages should be > deleted from all mailboxes.These are the usual yada-yada system > notifications no one reads > > For this I plan to add custom headers in al these notifications and run > ipurge for all mails with that header > > Is this possible ? I don't use ipurge, so I can't say whether ipurge can do this. > Alternatvely I could use an ImapClient script to logon to the mailboxes > and delete the mails. But I wont have passwords for all mailboxes ? A Cyrus administrator can authenticate as an administrator and authorize as a user. You can then perform operations on behalf of the user. You don't need to know the user's password. Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
