-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list, we are using dovecot with mdbox to provide mail services for a community of 1000 academic users. We have quite a big turnover of guest users, so we often have to deprovision the allocated resources, that is the mailboxes. Given that the users are virtual, and that the mdbox directory is located in the home directory of each virtual user (static userdb), is it ok to simply delete (rm -rf) the home directory to get rid of the mailbox? Could the delete, without say a dovecot reload, be harmful for dovecot processes and the like? thanks davide - -- Dott. Davide Vaghetti Centro Servizi Informatici Facolta' di Ingegneria Universita' di Pisa PGP: http://keys.keysigning.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A1B3BA18C4E0A4D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2tq/cACgkQehs7oYxOCk1ECgCg6Q5Pj+0k9GVYlS1ggmDLkwAr srkAoKMixJmyB7E+Ki6T9/8IzwYRC55z =/ZoN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:36 +0200, Davide Vaghetti wrote:> we are using dovecot with mdbox to provide mail services for a community > of 1000 academic users. We have quite a big turnover of guest users, so > we often have to deprovision the allocated resources, that is the > mailboxes. Given that the users are virtual, and that the mdbox > directory is located in the home directory of each virtual user (static > userdb), is it ok to simply delete (rm -rf) the home directory to get > rid of the mailbox?As long as you haven't enabled a separate attachment storage (mail_attachment_dir) it's safe to rm -rf.> Could the delete, without say a dovecot reload, be > harmful for dovecot processes and the like?No need to reload or anything. Other than the attachment storage, there is no global shared state across users.