Changes to .contactemail files not updating within WHM

[gregc]

I'm trying to update all of the contact email addresses associated with the domains on my server, so I just went through and manually updated all of the /home/USER/.contactemail files with the correct addresses, however when I go to List Accounts within WHM it still shows a lot of the old addresses.

I've tried rebooting various services as well as the entire server, in hopes that this was a caching issue and a reboot would fix it, but it didn't.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[gregc]

For anyone with the same issue, here's the solution...

Contrary to a lot of information out there you don't actually update the /home/USER/.contactemail files directly, instead you update the files in /var/cpanel/users. Each file has a line like [email protected], which is what you need to edit.

Within the /var/cpanel/users folder I ran the below search and replace in order to update all files.

sed -i -- 's/[email protected]/[email protected]/g' *

After updating the individual files in /var/cpanel/users you then need to run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains, which will update all of the .contactemail files with the email addresses in the /var/cpanel/users files.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I'm happy to see you were able to address the issue. You can also update the contact address for the cPanel account using WHM API 1 with a command such as:

whmapi1 modifyacct user=username [email protected]

Thank you.