Hi I have to maintain a dovcot installation where users may access there mails through IMAPS and/or via self-developed portal.>From time to time users complain about mailboxes showing up they have deleted bevor.The only way to get these mailboxes away is to do a backup of the user and delete dovecot home of the user and do a selective restore. hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox list -u $u -s 'INBOX/01_OHO/*' hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox list -u $u 'INBOX/01_OHO/*' INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16 hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox delete -u $u 'INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16' doveadm(username at domain.com): Info: Mailbox deleted: INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16 hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox list -u $u 'INBOX/01_OHO/*' INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16 hostname:~ # doveadm -v purge -u $u hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox list -u $u 'INBOX/01_OHO/*' INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16 hostname:~ # doveadm mailbox metadata list -u $u 'INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16' doveadm(username at domain.com): Error: Failed to open mailbox: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/01_OHO/02_Orchestermatin?e 10.01.16 hostname:~ # hostname:~ # dovecot --version 2.2.21 (5345f22) hostname:~ # Is there another (simpler) way to rid of these "deleted" mailboxes? Thanks for any help! Regards Thom