What you do with old account

[Albert Shih]

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.


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