Whats the best way to cleanup Imap mail folders

[Henning Holtschneider]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:46, Hamish wrote:
> 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.

That's 100% correct. You MUST NOT create or delete files or folders inside the 
imap mail storage directory tree manually. It will break the Cyrus IMAP 
server. All operations have to be performed through POP3 or IMAP.

Regards,
Henning Holtschneider
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