nuke a mailbox (new mail type)

[simonpearce]

Hi,

When a user had thousands of messages in their mailbox, we used to be able to echo -n>inbox to empty them all out; this doesn't work with the new mail system.

When I try rm -rf * in the /cur and /new directories I get:

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Any suggestions please?

Cheers

Simon

 

[Romka_]

!

You can delete this directories and recreate itself.

rm -rf cur; mkdir cur
etc....

But you must first look for owner and group for this folders and change it after recreate.

This is my method.

 

[Romka_]

This is example from my box where i`m use postfix.

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

echo "Postfix - STOP"
/usr/local/sbin/postfix stop

echo "Remove curent folders..."
rm -rf /usr/spool/postfix/defer
rm -rf /usr/spool/postfix/deferred
rm -rf /usr/spool/postfix/active

echo "Create new folders..."
mkdir /usr/spool/postfix/defer
mkdir /usr/spool/postfix/deferred
mkdir /usr/spool/postfix/active

echo "Change permition for folders..."
chown -R postfix:postfix /usr/spool/postfix/defer
chown -R postfix:postfix /usr/spool/postfix/deferred
chown -R postfix:postfix /usr/spool/postfix/active

echo "Postfix - START"
/usr/local/sbin/postfix start

 

[simonpearce]

You can delete this directories and recreate itself.

rm -rf cur; mkdir cur
etc....

But you must first look for owner and group for this folders and change it after recreate.

This is my method.

Would "Repair Mailbox permissions" in WHM fix the permissions????

 

[lostinspace]

Hi,

When a user had thousands of messages in their mailbox, we used to be able to echo -n>inbox to empty them all out; this doesn't work with the new mail system.

When I try rm -rf * in the /cur and /new directories I get:

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Any suggestions please?

Cheers

Simon

http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmm.html might make your life easier.

 

[simonpearce]

http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmm.html might make your life easier.

This is brilliant - simple to install - simple to use - deleted 64000 messages from a mailbox in just a few seconds!

Would highly recommend.

 

[lostinspace]

This is brilliant - simple to install - simple to use - deleted 64000 messages from a mailbox in just a few seconds!

Would highly recommend.

Tip of the iceberg my friend. You should check out Chirpy's CSF...

 

[bear]

We're loving Chirpy's scripts. Definitely another fine one from him..thanks, Jon!

 

[katmai]

csf cse cmm mailscanner - a must for every web server. rocks.