how to remove / deleted all email forwarders from particular domain ??

[crazyaboutlinux]

we have a domain which has 2000 numbers of email forwarders created & which want to remove them.

how to remove / deleted all email forwarders from particular domain at one go ?

[LinuxTechie]

Hello,

You can delete the forwarders of a particular domain from the file /etc/valiases/${domain} .
Cheers !

[crazyaboutlinux]

do i just need to enter only /etc/valiases/${domain} (replace with actual domain) from SSH ??

[JawadArshad]

Yes. Rather than deleting the file, you could move the file into the user's home folder as it would have been a quite an effort to add so many forwarders.

do i just need to enter only /etc/valiases/${domain} (replace with actual domain) from SSH ??

[crazyaboutlinux]

Yes. Rather than deleting the file, you could move the file into the user's home folder as it would have been a quite an effort to add so many forwarders.

I have tried but it gives an error

root@server [~]# /etc/valiases/$example.net
-bash: /etc/valiases/example.net: No such file or directory
root@server [~]# cd /etc/valiases/
root@server [/etc/valiases]# /etc/valiases/$example.net
-bash: /etc/valiasesexample.net: No such file or directory
root@server [/etc/valiases]# /etc/valiases/${example.net}
-bash: /etc/valiases/${example.net}: bad substitution
root@server [/etc/valiases]#

[LinuxTechie]

Hello,

root@server [/etc/valiases]# vi domain.com

You will be able to see the forwarders of the domain.

[cPanelTristan]

Hello Nilesh,

You cannot directly enter the file name without a corresponding command before it. If you want to move the file, you can do:

cd /etc/valiases
mv domain.com /home/user/domain.com

Here you are changing directory (cd) to /etc/valiases, then moving (mv) the domain's forwarder file to the user's home location. Replace domain.com with the domain in question and replace user with the cPanel account's username.

I did want to mention that vi isn't necessary to see the contents of a file also. You can use cat:

cat /etc/valiases/domain.com

Thanks.

[rhenderson]

we have a domain which has 2000 numbers of email forwarders created & which want to remove them.

how to remove / deleted all email forwarders from particular domain at one go ?

I would install ConfigServer Mail Manage and do it from there, it will show the forwarders in a text file you can cut and past save it before you delete them ConfigServer Mail Manage