Auto Delete Emails in Multiple Email Accounts at once

[stombaugh]

I need to be able to delete any and all emails from multiple email accounts at once. Is this possible to have maybe a Cron job run this every week or something like that? I have the passwords to all 1500+ email accounts on my server and I just need to be able to delete all contents of email accounts every week or so.

[cPanelMatt]

Well, there is no way to do this via the APIs unless you were to do something like remove & readd the accounts once a week. The easiest way to do this would be by manually removing files inside of the users maildir at:

/home/$username/mail/.$email_username/cur/* - READ inbox message
/home/$username/mail/.$email_username/new/* - UNREAD inbox messages
/home/$username/mail/.$email_username/*/new/* - UNREAD mail folder messages
/home/$username/mail/.$email_username/*/cur/* - READ mail folder messages

After this has been done for all accounts, /scripts/generate_maildirsize should probably be run to ensure that correct mailbox usage is correct accounted for.

[stombaugh]

I found a cron job to do it for me:

find /home/*/mail/*/*/*/* -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -rf

It works and it deletes everything.