Le 14/06/2020 à 21:51:49+0200, Sebastian Hagedorn a écrit Hi, Thanks for your answer. > Am 09.06.20 um 16:32 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: > > On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 15:51 +0200, Albert Shih wrote:> > >> After switching to cyrus imap, I think about how to do that. > >> If I'm correct I cannot just copy the file somewhere else, because cyrus > >> database would keep the information about the existance of the mailbox, so > >> what will the «state of the art» way to remove a mail account and all the > >> mail. > >> And how what would be the «state of the art» way to put it back ? > > I create a calendar event [task] to delete the mailbox and otherwise > > just leave it. If the account itself is disabled it cannot be accessed. > > > > Putting things back-into a mailstore is too much of a pain with current > > storage prices. > > We have about 90,000 accounts, and our current model is that we leave > expired accounts around for a year. The user can't login, and we don't > accept new mails, but it's still there in case the account is > re-activated. After one year the mailbox hierarchy is put into a .tgz > and written to tape. When that is done the account is permanently > deleted. If the user should come back, they get a completely new In fact I just notice, I've no idea...how to remove a mailbox in cyrus.... With dovecot it's rm -rf ;-) Something I famillar with. > account. I can't recall a single instance where the .tgz was ever > needed, but that's not my problem. After one more year the .tgz is Absolutly. > deleted from tape as well. Ok. Thanks Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris xmpp: jas@xxxxxxxx Heure local/Local time: Tue 23 Jun 2020 04:09:05 PM CEST ---- 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
