Re: [Courier-imap] Retention policies?

[Milan O. <cou...@di...>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:52:44 -0500
"Administrator :: pLAN9" <ad...@pL...> wrote:

> One last follow up question here, is it alright to just delete the
> files off of the Linux filesystem where the mail is stored, directly
> with rm? Or will this cause corruption of the mailbox

My experience (only with maildirs as implemented in Courier mail suite)
is you can remove any file as you wish, there is no additional meta
information store as far as I know. I move files within maildirs quite
often and no negative effect was experienced. But that's just me...

Regards,
Milan