You're the reason we can't have nice things :( rm + reconstruct will bite you one upgrade for sure. A dry run option to ipurge sounds like a great idea. We just always use IMAP to do admin on Cyrus, but I can see a case for improving ipurge. On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, at 01:04, Vladislav Kurz via Info-cyrus wrote: > On 09/29/16 16:32, Patrick Boutilier via Info-cyrus wrote: > > On 09/29/2016 11:27 AM, Shawn Bakhtiar via Info-cyrus wrote: > >> Good morning, > >> > >> trying to get rid of some emails that have large attachments (i.e. > >> videos sent over email, or cd images, etc...) > >> > >> Would it be proper to > >> > >> rm -rf /var/spool/imap/u/username/mailbox/4321. > >> > >> then > >> > >> reconstruct -rf user.username > >> > >> Or is there a more "proper" way using cyrus? > > > > Not sure about deleting a single message but you can use ipurge to > > delete messages based on size. Good to use in a script to parses the > > mail spool. > > > > rm + reconstruct is IMHO ok, we use that for trash/spam cleanup, > antivirus checks, and similar things. > > ipurge is nice but I would really appreciate if it had a --dry-run > option. I'm never sure what it will really delete. > > > -- > Best Regards > Vladislav Kurz > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
