Bulk delete email accounts from cPanel in SSH?

YouHost

• May 21, 2018 16:59

Hi, I have found the following procedure to bulk delete email account for a domain. 1. Create a text file, delemails.txt, with each account name on its own line: account_003 account_004 account_012 account_027 etc... 2. FTP that file onto your server into a convenient location. 3. SSH onto the server and cd to the location where is placed delemails.txt 4. Run this command from the SSH shell: for i in `cat delemails.txt`; do /usr/local/cpanel/cpanel-email delpop "$i" 0 mydomain.com ; done Do you thinks is it safe to use that?

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  24x7server

  • May 22, 2018 07:10

  Hi, That is fine, but the same thing you can also do using WHMAPI2. You can refer to the below link for more details: cPanel API 2 Functions - Email::delpop - Developer Documentation - cPanel Documentation

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  cPanelLauren

  • May 22, 2018 15:46

  Hello As stated by @24x7server the cpapi2 delpop function can also be used but you'd need to create a loop for it as well. Thanks!

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  aadii786

  • April 13, 2021 15:10

  Need help to on this issue i'm able delete emails directory but email not removed from email option find -path "*/mail/*" -type d -name "smtp" -exec rm -rf "{}" \;

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 13, 2021 19:43

  @aadii786 - deleting the file structure would not remove the email accounts from cPanel. You'd want to use the API call to properly remove the email account:

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  aadii786

  • April 13, 2021 20:48

  uapi --user={SPECEFIC USER NAME} Email delete_pop email='{SPECEFIC EMAIL ADDRESS}' yes it helped me to delete email when i specifically add user name and specific email address. uapi --user={ALL USERS IN MY SERVER} Email delete_pop email='{ALL EMAIL STARTS FROM WORD smtp @ ALL DOMAINS' I want a loop like this please help to generate a loop or documentations I can follow to make this loop.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 13, 2021 20:53

  I don't have a ready-made loop for this situation, but a "for" or "while" loop would work well for this. We have an example of this work here:

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  aadii786

  • April 13, 2021 22:08

  I don't have a ready-made loop for this situation, but a "for" or "while" loop would work well for this. We have an example of this work here:

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  aadii786

  • April 14, 2021 00:06

  cat emaillist.txt | while read EMAIL;do uapi --user={cpanel username} Email delete_pop email=$EMAIL;done Now just problem left in cPanel usernames fetching that i have tried with 2 methods 1) extract domain name from email address that i have already list. then cPanel account name based on that extracted domain .. but no luck I have tried regex to get domain name. URI="

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 14, 2021 12:32

  I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do with the usernames. Can you let me know specifically what you're trying to do and what data you're trying to pull?

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