SSH command to detect if domain is using mdbox or maildir

codepoet

• June 28, 2017 20:53

Hello, I was wondering if there was an official way to detect using ssh if a domain is using mdbox or maildir. The reason why is because I am building a little script that would run on cron and empty the spam assassin spam folder. But since the mdbox and maildir storage directories are different I need a way to find out Thanks in advance

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  codepoet

  • June 29, 2017 02:05

  Actually to add to this. If a domain is using mdbox, wouldn't it be impossible to empty a specific amount of message in the spam folder since mdbox stores one or more messages per file ?

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 29, 2017 13:40

  Hello @codepoet, Good question! The mdbox format does in-fact stores multiple messages in a single file. To manually delete messages, you'd use the expunge feature with doveadm: Tools/Doveadm/Expunge - Dovecot Wiki Here's an example of a command you can use to delete all messages from an email account's INBOX folder:
  doveadm expunge -u test1@domain.tld mailbox INBOX all
  Thank you.

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  codepoet

  • July 25, 2017 17:30

  Thank you @cPanelMichael Sorry for the late reply :S

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