[SOLVED] How to delete all contacts from an address book

[notexist]

For some strange reason a user have several thousand of contacts into the address book (possibly after a sync error with thunderbird), how the administrator can erase all the contacts at one time?


Many thanks

[washo]

To get all contacts you can use this command

zmmailbox -z -m user@domain gact


To delete each contact you must get the id from the previous list and do:

zmmailbox -z -m user@domain dct ContactID

It's the only way that I know, you may find better options

Regards.

[phoenix]

ZCS 4.5.x Mass delete of Contacts - Zimbra :: Wiki

[phoenix]

Oh I forgot to add, be very careful with that command as it will actually remove (i.e. they will be completely removed with no chance of recovery) all the contacts/mail etc. in the specified users account. So make sure you actually have the correct user account and the correct folder is being emptied - you should take a backup before you do it, just in case.

[notexist]

Perfect!!
With the suggest:

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov sm dotproject@example.com emptyFolder /contacts

the folder Contacts has been cleaned, many thanks for the help!

[untripathy]

Before removal to check the number of Contacts that user have:

[XXXX~]$ zmmailbox -z -m Username gact | grep "Id:" | wc -l

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Exported Username Contacts to a .csv file:

[XXXX~]$ zmmailbox -z -m Username gru -o /tmp/File_name.csv /Contacts

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Removed the Address Book entries:

[XXXX~]$ zmmailbox -z -m Username ef /Contacts

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Follow-up check to see if Address Book contains 0 Contacts now:

[XXXX~]$ zmmailbox -z -m Username gact | grep "Id:" | wc -l
0

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