You can do it; nothing _disasterous_ will happen, but the server will
get confused and report errors. You can use reconstruct to fix a
mailbox that has been mangled in this way.
We do all management possible via IMAP (such as remotepurge in the
netnews directory or using the Perl scripts). My philosophy is to
treat the IMAP server like a file server---different protocol, same
concept.
Larry
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:59:07 -0500
From: "Andy Hubbell, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Probably a faq, but is it safe to just arbitrarily delete a file from a
users mailbox from the shell? I.E. Not via pop3 or imap? Just rm -f the file?
I'm inclined to think this is neither safe, nor a very good idea... But I
thought I'd ask anyway.
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