Moving a mailbox out of the spool, and resetting it?

[Leon Kolchinsky]

> Is it possible to archive a whole mailbox and then empty it (on a
> filesystem
> level), and get cyrus to realise the physical changes (ie recognise there
> is
> no mail in the mailbox, and reset the quota etc), I can't find a way of
> doing this, after moving mail from the mailbox and running quota -f, it
> doesn't realise there is no mail in the mailbox and still thinks there is
> 2GB of mail in there (hard limit quota).
> 
> I guess this is where I need to know the architecture of cyrus's
> mailboxes.
> 
> i don't mind using cyrus-admin or command line to do this, just would
> rather
> not use IMAP to do it.
> 
> Any pointers to relevant docs would be great if you can't provide direct
> instructions.
> 

Yeah sure,

You can do it like this:

# su cyrus -c "(/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ipurge -f -b 0 user/your_username)"

# man ipurge - for additional options

Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky