Delete all folders/messages after imapsync test run

[berjos]

Hi

Our company is going to migriate to zimbra open source version.
Everything seems to be working fine. Imapsync works great.

Is there anyway to empty all mailboxes currently on the server ? As we did a test run with some users, but still there will be some weeks before we are ready to migriate. I know i can empty folders with the following command :

zmmailbox -z -m account@domain.com emptyFolder "foldername" or

zmmailbox -z -m account@domain.com df "foldername"

Anyway to do this without having to know the folder names ? Iguess deleting the account and adding it again would solve it, but i would rather not do that as that would mean a lot of work configuring the accounts/shares again.

[bdial]

probably the easiest way would be to run a script to call zmmailbox getAllFolders for the account. you'd have to parse the output to get the last column which is the foldername, and you should probably parse that even to only get top level folders to save time.

[berjos]

Got it working with a perl script i wrote up.

Basically what it does is :

read a input file with the usernames, sends gaf command to zmmailbox with the user name. Save the output to a file, then parse this file save path to a new file wich contains appopriate zmmailbox commands. Make this file excutable and run it ;P

Script is not perfect but gets the job done. Thx for the pointer.

[mutley59]

Would you like to share your script? I have exactly the same issue and wish to delete all mail without deleting the account ? thanks

[berjos]

I can post it, here it is :

tombruker.zip

Im no pro scripter so use at own risk, but at least it worked for me.

Execute script : perl scriptname.pl inputfile

inputfile has following format :

Username1
Username2
Username3
etc

Would advise you to remove any blank lines, from the outputfile ones the script has finished (open with vim, then use ":sort u" command). Also make the output file executable (chmod+x), ones you execute it there is no turning back..

[mutley59]

thanks for that.. Much appreciated. I will give it a whirl

[berjos]

Happy to help Would be nice with a reply if it works for you or not.