Removing mail from command line

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On Donnerstag, 11. März 2004 0:19 Uhr +0000 Jamie Penman-Smithson 
<jamie at silverdream.org> wrote:

> After I've done that, I'd like to delete the messages currently in the
> folder. I've read the bits and pieces about cyrus being a 'closed box'
> mail system, but I was hoping that someone would have a solution.

You have to use IMAP to do that (for example through a Perl script), or 
perhaps the ipurge command.

> I've
> tried rm'ing a message from a test mailbox, and while it's gone, I
> assume that cyrus caches all mail because it remains there when I check
> with my IMAP client.

No, Cyrus only *thinks* it's still there ... you need to run reconstruct on 
that mailbox, otherwise there's going to be trouble.

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18
Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK
Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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