Cron Job auto delete emails older than X days in a domain

[ahyde]

Hi,
I try to delete all email arrived of 1 month old of a specific domain with a cron job I tried with this commands:

/usr/bin/archivemail -quiet -delete -days 30 /home/USERNAME/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/

find /home/USERNAME/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

find /home/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/*/ -quiet -delete -days 30

find  /home/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/ -type f -mtime +7 -delete

I have been reading a lot in internet, I read and search in this forum but nothing works for me.
My host it a VPS of Godaddy I don't know if this influences in the command

I read these entries previously and others from internet:
Possible to auto delete old emails after x number of days?
Deleting Mails with Cron ???

Some errors sending to my email are with different commands:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
find: unknown predicate `--delete'
find: `/home/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/': No such file or directory

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

The following thread should help:

Having issues getting cron job to work

Remember that values such as "mydomain" are referring to your actual domain name.

Thank you.

 

[ahyde]

Thank you for answer and yes I replace USERNAME and MYDOMAIN.COM as my user name and the domain what I want delete all emails. I read the entry but did not work, I'm so newbie and I don't understand a lot the commands but I try.

The path what I think is the correc for me is (because I see the path in my host server):

/home/USERNAME/mail/MYDOMAIN.COM/*/

because when I write the code previously put they don't send me error in the path, but in the command code after send me errors. I have been reading what mean each word in the commands but nothing I don't have idea why don't work

 

[cPanelMichael]

Do you see any output if you manually enter the "find" command? Could you send me a private message of the exact command you are using?

Thank you.

 

[ahyde]

Sorry but I can't send PM, this error out:


But anyway this is the code that I wanted send you

The path what I think is the correct is:

find /home/usernamehere/mail/example.com/*

but the commands I don't know why don't works

well, this are the commands what I used :

find /home/mail/example.com/*/ -quiet -delete -days 30
find  /home/mail/example.com/ -type f -mtime +7 -delete
–quiet –delete –months 1 /home/iqmarkethink/mail/example.com/*/

My user is:usernamehere
and my domain: example.com

Really thanks again for you help, I'm soooooooo newbie in this

 

[cPanelMichael]

Your "find" commands do not appear to use the correct paths. It's searching in "/home/mail" which is not a valid directory location.

Thank you.

 

[mageshm]

Try the below url, it will work for you. Long time back, I have deleted manually and you can do the same via cron also.

How to Delete Files Older Than x Days in Linux | 2daygeek.com