Topic: delete all the emails

[john56]

Hi,
is there a way to delete the emails for all users ?
Thanks.

[Stefano]

how many users?
how many emails?
why?

[john56]

for 150 teachers users (i've delete the 550 others school users so that's ok).
of course , I will keep their account and home. But need to clean their emails (not used anymore)

[Jáder]

I think you could use something like:

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pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -rf $u/Maildir/*
done; \
popd

NOT TESTED!
If you´re not sure, add an "echo " before the rm -rf line to see the result, copy/paste one sample line and try it!

[john56]

That seems ok to delete with :

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pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -rf $u/Maildir/*
done; \
popd

pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -rf $u/Maildir/*.*
done; \
popd

pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -f $u/welcome.msg
done; \
popd
but not for the send messages ... where are they to delete them too ?

[Jáder]

Hi

This command should be EVEN MORE DESTRUCTIVE:

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pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -rf $u/Maildir
done; \
popd

I think his will destroy all maildir folders for all users but admin.
Maybe you need a signal-event email-update or  something else to recreate it.
Not sure if daemons will reconstruct them if not there or if they'll fail to delivery e-mails.

[guest22]

I will keep their account and home. But need to clean their emails (not used anymore)

Some bright advisor said to go for 365 or gma*l email solutions?

[john56]

Hi !

Code: [Select]

pushd /home/e-smith/files/users/; \
for u in `ls | grep -v admin`; \
do \
  rm -rf $u/Maildir
done; \
popd
It works fine with that command (strange no ?)


RequestedDeletion, yes ... school is business too

My students and teachers don't really like horde and that mail system ... i don't know why...
Me, i like it because of ldap rules.

[john56]

So, in fact, i have another issue now with cron command
"perl /etc/e-smith/events/actions/purge-junkmail-folders"

Couldn't chdir to junkmail folder of user angotr: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

because there is no more folder Maildir etc ...

How can generate them again ?

[john56]

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