Re: How to Delete an user and Purge attachements with a common directory mail_attachment_dir with SIS for all users.

[Alexander Moisseev]

On 12.02.2015 12:00, TN wrote:

 Hello Alexander,

 Thank you for your answer, it is very helpfull for me.

Just a little addon with your process to complet the deletion an user :

# doveadm expunge -d -u johndoe mailbox '*' all
# doveadm -v purge -u johndoe  (this command 
force attachment deletion immediatly )
# rm -rf /var/mail/johndoe

Thank you

PS: Sorry to not reply to the dovecot list because i setup a digest for all 
answers.



Hi,

Many thanks for your reply. It's a *very important* addition actually.

There is lack of documentation on SIS. So I have done some experimenting and 
found out that the command
# doveadm purge -u johndoe
*is mandatory*. Without this step attachements will stay in mail_attachment_dir 
forever.

Man doveadm-purge(1) states doveadm-purge - Remove messages with refcount=0 from 
mdbox files, but actually it also removes attachments from mail_attachment_dir.

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Alexander

Re: How to Delete an user and Purge attachements with a common directory mail_attachment_dir with SIS for all users.

[Alexander Moisseev]

10.02.2015 18:36, TN пишет:

What is the best way to delete an user mailbox (ex: /var/mail/johndoe ) 
when all attachments  (for all users) are in a common directory with SIS 
deduplication (ex: mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments ) ?
Trying to delete user mailbox directory (rm) and do the command  : doveadm -v 
purge -u johndoeleave  all johndoe's attachments orphelin.



You should always expunge mailbox *before* deleting it, if you are using SIS.

# doveadm expunge -d -u johndoe mailbox '*' all
# rm -rf /var/mail/johndoe

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Alexander