1 Topic by mikekgr

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Topic: Possible to delete user and mail dir immediately?

==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====
- iRedMail version (check /etc/iredmail-release): 1.3.1
- Deployed with iRedMail Easy or the downloadable installer? Installer
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: 20.04
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- Manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin-Pro? No
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====

Dear Sirs,
using the iRedAdmin Web, I tried to delete a mail user. At the delete selection, there is no way to delete the mail box (user's mail dir) immediately. The soonest that is permitted is 1 day. Is there any way to change this and to have or to add immediately deletion of mailbox?
Thanks.

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Possible to delete user and mail dir immediately?

This was answered in Telegram chat group, but let me answer here again to leave some info for further users.

- iRedAdmin(-Pro) is running as system user "iredadmin", it doesn't have required privilege to remove mailboxes which are owned by user/group "vmail:vmail" with permission 0700. So it stores the maildir path and schedules the removal date in SQL database.
- There's a daily cron job which runs script "tools/delete_mailboxes.sh" in iRedAdmin(-Pro) directory to check scheduled removal every night, and actually remove scheduled ones.