[Dovecot] deleting maildir files

[Charles Marcus]

>> Can we delete maildir files directly from the file system?

> Yes.

Does this also go for special folders inside a maildir? Like, for 
example, the .Trash folder? I have a user who was trying to delete about 
30,000 messages from a folder, and when he did this, TBird went into 
never-never land, and now every time he clicks on the Trash folder in 
TBird, it goes into never-never land again. I have already deleted the 
local cache files from his TBird profile, so there is something wrong on 
the server side.

I don't have much experience manually manipulating maildirs, so would 
appreciate comments...

What I was going to do was first delete the folder:

rm -ri /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir/.Trash

then once it is all gone, do:

maildirmake -f Trash /var/virtual/domain.com/maildir

By the way, if it matters, this server is still running Courier I'm 
sorry to say, but I think they're ready to let me migrate them to 
dovecot now that it has reached 'stable' status.

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Best regards,

Charles