command line deletion of files

[Bron Gondwana]

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
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