[Dovecot] deleting maildir files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 17 20:05:40 EEST 2007


On 17.7.2007, at 19.56, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 7/17/2007, Charles Marcus (CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com) wrote:
>> 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
>
> Anyone see any problems with fixing this this way? It is really  
> getting annoying not being able to delete anything...

Or just delete .Trash/cur and mkdir it back. That way UIDVALIDITY  
doesn't change (although I think TB is able to handle it, but at  
least Mail.app broke really badly last time I did that).

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