cur subfolder cannot be deleted

Hi,
I have a mailbox which somehow had the locations of the cur and new folders changed a few years ago. As a result, the cur folder now appears as a subfolder within another folder in the mail account. This folder then has individual folders for each email, although they are empty.

To show how the folder structure was wrong:
~\Username
cur
new
tmp
Username
cur
(subfolder for each email)
new
tmp

The first three folders are correct, but there was then a subfolder which had the normal mail structure. However these subfolders have not been edited for 3 years and are not needed.

There are now hundreds if not thousands of subfolders, and while trying to delete them individually works, trying to delete the entire cur folder and all subfolders does not work. I have tried deleting the folders from the cPanel file manager, but they still appear in webmail. Is there any way to remove all of these without having to individually remove them?

Thanks,
Jiahao

 

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if I have root access and will need to check. If I do have such access, how would I go about removing them? How is deleting it from command line different from deleting them from the file manager?

 

Ok then thank you very much for your help.

Just to check, apart from having to backup emails before hand, there should be no side effects of deleting the email account and recreating it?