is it safe to manually remove DELETED folders ?

Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Tue Jul 30 09:32:23 EDT 2019


You shpuld check the output of

ctl_mboxlist -d

Only if the DELETED mailbox(es) aren't included there is it safe to just
remove them.
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Am 30.07.19 um 15:22 Uhr schrieb Chentao Credungtao via Info-cyrus:
> Hello
> 
> My main question : is it safe to manually remove (rm -rf) a folder
> like??
> /domain/e/example.net/*u/DELETED/user/someuser/Trash/INBOX/5BCA0EB9* ?
> 
> The folder doesn't show with cyradm ??? listmailboxes.
> 
> 
> As a side question, and out of curiosity : any idea how come a DELETED
> folder doesn't show with cyradm ??? listmailboxes ?
> 
> I know exactly what happened, October last year our webmail (SOGo) had a
> bug (fixed since) : when a user pressed on <Delete> without selecting an
> e-mail, the whole INBOX ended up in trash. So I'm not surprise to have
> this /u/DELETED/user/someuser/Trash/INBOX/5BCA0EB9 folder, what
> surprises me is that it's not listed with cyradm (other DELETED folders
> _are_ listed with cyradm > lm DELETED*).
> 
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