Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

Craig White wrote:

Trying to script deleting a user's mailbox from system...

/bin/su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyradm localhost \ --userrc=/var/lib/imap/.systemrc dm user.public'


Try something like this instead:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use Cyrus::IMAP::Admin;

$imap = Cyrus::IMAP::Admin->new("servername")
   or die "Failed to connect";
$imap->authenticate("-user" => "username",
                    "-password" => "password",
                    "-mechanism" => "LOGIN")
   or die "Failed to authenticate";
$imap->delete("user.mailbox")
   or die "Failed to delete mailbox";

See man pages for Cyrus::IMAP::Admin and Cyrus::IMAP for more details.


One thing worth noting, in order to delete a mailbox, one must have "c" permission on it. Admins, by default, do not have it. You must first "sam <mailbox> <admin> c", then "dm user.mailbox".

Nix.
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