How to delete all email from Cpanel once a week?

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    Hi all, thanks for taking a look.

    How can i create something that cleans all email from all accounts (Cpanel) once a week?

    Thanks
     
    scubita, Jul 8, 2008 IP
  2. zacharooni

    zacharooni Well-Known Member

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    You would need to traverse /home/<user>/mail/<domain>/<domain_user>/{new,cur,tmp,.spam}
    That's going to be quite nasty.
     
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    How come the accounts are being popped and downloaded to end users?

    Second, are you allowing unrouteable mail to be delivered to teh default cPanel user? If so you are robbing your server of resources and accepting tons of spam.
     
    Enfinityhost, Jul 10, 2008 IP
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    scubita Peon

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    First question, dont know what to answer, sorry.

    Second one, yep, guess all emails from all accounts are being directed to the "main account", so i had 7.000 + emails in there :eek:
     
    scubita, Jul 10, 2008 IP
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    popped = pop3

    Outlook or something downloads email which removes it from the server.

    If the default account is accepting mail, I would prevent this from editing the /etc/valiases/$domain.com files and change the entry
    from
    *: cpaneluser
    to
    *: :fail:
     
    Enfinityhost, Jul 10, 2008 IP