Delete All Default Email Address for All Users

[kamranonline]

Hi,

How its possible to delete ONLY emails in Default Email Account for all users of cPanel/WHM ?

Is it possible to provide me SSH Command to remove all emails in cur , new of default account ?

Thank you

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Email sent to the default address is stored in:

/home/$username/mail/cur
/home/$username/mail/new

You can delete all of this email through the use of a wildcard and the "rm" command.

To note, you can ensure emails sent to non-existent email accounts are not delivered to the default address by ensuring your accounts set the "Default Address" to:

"Discard with error to sender (at SMTP time)"

Thank you.

 

[kamranonline]

Would you please tell me the FULL BASH command ?

Thank you

 

[cPanelMichael]

There is no single command to use, but you could try something such as:

mkdir /root/email-to-delete
mv /home/*/mail/cur/* /root/email-to-delete/
mv /home/*/mail/new/* /root/email-to-delete/

Then, simply delete "/root/email-to-delete" when you have confirmed the emails are no longer required.

Thank you.

 

[gfserver]

Hi.. I've tried this method but I received this message
-bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

What can I do? I'm a newbie

Apologize my bad english

Thanks

 

[cPanelMichael]

I don't suggest using these types of commands if you are an inexperienced user. Have you checked to see if your hosting provider or data center can assist you with this? If they can't help you, try these commands:

mkdir /root/email-to-delete
find /home/*/mail/cur/* -type f | xargs -i mv "{}" /root/email-to-delete/

Remember this is going to remove all email from every account's default address.

Thank you.