Main User Mailbox question

[bradyb]

One of my clients has 28000 emails in the main acct. How can i easily delete all. I have just added the :fail: rule for emails that come in to bogus aliases.

Thanks,
Brady

[pross]

found this with google..might be worth trying...

Use this

if the message is frozen

exim -bpru|grep frozen|awk {'print $3'}|xargs exim -Mrm

if the message is <>

exim -bpru|grep '<>'|awk {'print $3'}|xargs exim -Mrm

if all

exim -bpru|awk {'print $3'}|xargs exim -Mrm

[cpanelinfoseeker]

Using the Mail Manager (CMM) from Chirpy, i would just find the email in question and hit the 'empty mailbox' option. This works very quickly and has many other useful options as well. I use it to monitor the email boxes on my server to warn the users when they are getting near full (at 92%).

My other suggestion would be to use WinSCP3 and go to the directory where the mail is and select all the files in the directory and delete, but this takes a while as it deletes each one in order.

If you are familiar with SSH, that would be the other option and go to the mail directory (/home/USER/mail/(cur,usr,tmp)) and delete the email in the folders.

Ron

[katmai]

chirpy mail manager - will do the trick. configserver.com. try

[bradyb]

Can i just ftp the domain and go to mail folder and delete the inbox file? will it be recreated?

Thanks,
Brady