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Inbox taking up a ton of disk space

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  1. Jeff75

    Jeff75 Well-Known Member

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    I have an account who is currently using over 400 MBs in their mail directory. I checked the disk space that is displayed under Show Disk Space under the Email Accounts page in cPanel and it shows their accounts are using up a total of 14 MBs. When I SSH to their mail directory, it shows their /home/username/mail/inbox file is using 388 MBs of space.

    Can somebody tell me what this is and how I get rid of all this space it is taking up? They are not using Spam Assassin in case this has something to do with it.
     
    #1 Jeff75, Nov 13, 2003
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    did you check the trash and sent mail folders?
     
    #2 SiKoTiK, Nov 13, 2003
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    Hmm All unroutable emails are sent to your default email address. I have this problem also last time but I set the default email address destination to :blackhole:
     
    #3 whichone, Nov 16, 2003
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    It is showing that the default mail address is just set to "loginname". In the list of the client's email addresses, it only shows that the account that is taking up the most space is 12 MBs, however the inbox file is over 425 MBs.

    Do you know how they can check the mail instead of just deleting the inbox file to clear the disk space?
     
    #4 Jeff75, Nov 16, 2003
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    they can go their webmail, I believed there are tons of emails there. ask them to delete, but the problem still won't solved because those unroutable emails will keep storing in the default email address unless you set the default email address to :blackhole:
     
    #5 whichone, Nov 16, 2003
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    Where do you set the "default email address" to :blackhole:?

    Under Mail Manager, I only see three options:

    root, mailman, nobody.

    I already have mailman and nobody set to :blackhole:
    and root seems important so I have it sent to mine.

    But the mail queue has thousands of emails in there, all appear to be spamm that spam assassinator has bounced. Where is that setup?

    thanks.
     
    #6 matt621, Nov 18, 2003
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    That is under your users account Cpanel, mail.

    Select default address and set it to :blackhole:
     
    #7 whichone, Nov 19, 2003
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    There is no user account. This for the server. The server is known as server.ourdomain.com. There is no such account on the box. So there is no default email address I can set.
     
    #8 matt621, Nov 19, 2003
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