1 Topic by fsantiago06111979

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Topic: what happens when you schedule a mailbox deletion?

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what happens exactly when you schedule a mailbox deletion in let's say, 1 day? where does this get scheduled? i ask because after my reported error yesterday deleting a domain containing mailboxes, for which i specified deletion in 1 day, i double checked my db. i found the two mailboxes in question still listed under the table 'forwardings'. do these get removed in 1 day? or does that scheduled deletion only refer to deleting the physical mail stores from the file system? given that they were deleted everywhere else in the db but this one table, i feel this may have been an error. but am not sure. can you advise please? Thanks.

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: what happens when you schedule a mailbox deletion?

- The mailbox deletion is for deleting mailbox, not for cleaning up mail accounts stored in sql db.
- Your server should have a cron job for root user to run script 'tools/delete_mailboxes.py' (under iRedAdmin directory)
- The orphan addresses in "forwardings" were caused by the bug you expereienced in your another post:
https://forum.iredmail.org/post63894.html#p63894

3 Reply by fsantiago06111979

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Re: what happens when you schedule a mailbox deletion?

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

- The mailbox deletion is for deleting mailbox, not for cleaning up mail accounts stored in sql db.
- Your server should have a cron job for root user to run script 'tools/delete_mailboxes.py' (under iRedAdmin directory)
- The orphan addresses in "forwardings" were caused by the bug you expereienced in your another post:
https://forum.iredmail.org/post63894.html#p63894

Thanks. Case closed.