Re: delete files from /var/spool/imap/{user-sub-dir}

2001-02-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
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 p

delete files from /var/spool/imap/{user-sub-dir}

2001-02-15 Thread Andy Hubbell, Jr.
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. --- PGP public key fingerprint FC3A FD71 8