Re: Deleting files in sdbox
On 27 Dec 2014, at 10:18, Jeff Mitchell jeffrey.mitch...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 27, 2014 3:19 AM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: You could use the message UID to delete those pesky messages maybe. Of course you could try deleting those messages on your own and run afterwards a doveadm index. This should also do the job. As I said in my OP I could use doveadm-expunge with a search query. But I've done that and it's very slow to rerun constantly with various UIDs. I could maybe write a query with thousands of UIDs if it wouldn't complain. I'd think you should be able to run doveadm expunge -u user@domain mailbox foo uid 5,10,100,101,102,etc. That shouldn't be much slower than rm'ing them. My actual question as stated was what happens if I just rm those files... if Dovecot will be okay with it, figure out that the mailboxes don't match, and fix the index and cache files. If rerunning doveadm-index after manually will make everything happy, this seems like the faster approach. But I just want to make sure I won't damage the sdbox in a permanent sense. doveadm force-resync fixes it, but it's a bit ugly way. How about using doveadm deduplicate command instead?
Re: Deleting files in sdbox
Zitat von Jeff Mitchell jeffrey.mitch...@gmail.com: I have a script that can find these duplicated messages (by ignoring the first few and last few lines of each message, and using SHAs to compare and find the duplicates). However, I don't see a doveadm style command to manually delete messages, except for doveadm-expunge. In Well... doveadm is an abstraction layer to the user. It doesn't care that you want to delete file x or y, it does care that you want to delete that one specific mail and locates it for you and deletes it then. That's being done on purpose. And deleting mails with doveadm needs to operations: 1. you need to mark the mail for deletion, means you need to expunge it, then 2. you need to purge it. Purging all your mailboxes should be done in a maybe daily run cron job. And how to construct a dovecot search query is documented here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/SearchQuery You could use the message UID to delete those pesky messages maybe. Of course you could try deleting those messages on your own and run afterwards a doveadm index. This should also do the job.
Re: Deleting files in sdbox
On Dec 27, 2014 3:19 AM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: You could use the message UID to delete those pesky messages maybe. Of course you could try deleting those messages on your own and run afterwards a doveadm index. This should also do the job. As I said in my OP I could use doveadm-expunge with a search query. But I've done that and it's very slow to rerun constantly with various UIDs. I could maybe write a query with thousands of UIDs if it wouldn't complain. My actual question as stated was what happens if I just rm those files... if Dovecot will be okay with it, figure out that the mailboxes don't match, and fix the index and cache files. If rerunning doveadm-index after manually will make everything happy, this seems like the faster approach. But I just want to make sure I won't damage the sdbox in a permanent sense. Thanks, Jeff
