Whats the best way to cleanup Imap mail folders

Hamish lists at subvs.co.uk
Wed Aug 17 18:46:10 CEST 2005


On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:28, John Dempsey wrote:
> Hi all, This may be as simple as just deleteing the files and folders,
> but I wanted to make sure I didnt mess something
> up doing that.
>
> We are using Kolab in POP mode for email, so that users manage their
> mail on their individual machines and I don't need to deal with it on
> the server.  A few users enabled "Email delivery" in their user settings
> and it was saving messages on the server and in one case filled up his
> quota.  He should be downloading everything and removing it from the
> server instead.  Whats the best way to remove the messages from the
> server without harming anything?

I would connect using an IMAP client, and then delete as necessary, I dont 
think its a good idea to start deleting files directly.
Hope that helps,
H
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