dovecot - Apr 2011 - What is the recommended way to delete a message from a mailbox ?

Hi,

I'm implementing a shell-script (pseudo) solution to the missing IMAP Outbox
feature in Dovecot (Courier IMAP feature 
 http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/INSTALL.html#imapsend)

In order to remove the message from the Outbox once it is sent I have a
question:

What is the recommended way to delete a message from a mailbox (from an
"external" server side program - such as a shell script) ? 

Can I just remove the file from the mailbox - I cannot seem to find any
doveadm commands that does this task.
I guess that Dovecot over time will discover that the atime and mtime of its
indexes and maps does not reflect reality - or is there another (better) way
to delete a message.

Thanks Uffe

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:25:39 -0700 (PDT), Uffe Jakobsen
wrote:
> What is the recommended way to delete a message from a mailbox (from 
> an
> "external" server side program - such as a shell script) ?
 doveadm expunge -u foo mailbox Outbox header message-id bar

Andrew Lewis-10 wrote:
> 
>  On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:25:39 -0700 (PDT), Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>> What is the recommended way to delete a message from a mailbox (from 
>> an
>> "external" server side program - such as a shell script) ?
>  doveadm expunge -u foo mailbox Outbox header message-id bar
> 
ah - thx :-)
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