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Deleting All Email From Mailbox
| Posted by danielj, 12-29-2007, 10:46 AM |
| Hi
I am running cpanel and am trying to delete all mail from one certain mailbox. What is the command for doing this? I thought it was this:
# cd /home/USER/mail/
# echo > inbox
However that does not seem to work?
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted by fbroce, 12-29-2007, 10:57 AM |
| I don't know about cpanel but the command line way to do it is:
cd /var/mail/
cat /dev/null > user
The other paths may be correct in your setup.
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| Posted by Vinayak_Sharma, 12-29-2007, 11:48 AM |
| Or install http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmm.html (free) and it will make your life quite easy managing emails on WHM/cPanel server.
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| Posted by ServerSurgeon George, 12-29-2007, 12:19 PM |
| did you convert mail to the MailDir format?
If it's MailDir then you need to remove all files under:
/home/USER/mail/cur
/home/USER/mail/new
/home/USER/mail/tmp
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| Posted by bear, 12-29-2007, 02:54 PM |
| It was (in the old mbox format) echo -n > inbox
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