Create a Delete Email Cron Job?

JessC

• October 03, 2019 11:43

Hi, I'm trying to setup cron job to delete emails. I've been searching in this forum and tried to replicate what in there. Here's what I setup: 1. Created a folder named cron-jobs. The location is under home/user/cron-jobs. And the permission is 0755. 2. I created a file named deletemail_it.sh. The permission is 0744 The code is #!/bin/sh find /home/example/mail/example.com/it/cur -type f -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
3. Cron Job setting is: /usr/local/bin/php /home/example/cron-jobs/deletemail_it.sh
Result: 1. Once the cron job runs, I received this email find /home/example/mail/example.com/it/cur -type f -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
2. Once I checked the mailbox. The emails are still there Note: The mailbox contains 3 emails dated 2018. Did I configure wrong somewhere in my settings? Thanks in advance

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  Jcats

  • October 03, 2019 17:46

  You are trying to execute a bash script using PHP, that won't work. Since the script has execute permissions as the user, just put: /home/example/cron-jobs/deletemail_it.sh or you could do: bash /home/example/cron-jobs/deletemail_it.sh but its not necessary Otherwise, it should work.

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  JessC

  • October 03, 2019 17:59

  You are trying to execute a bash script using PHP, that won't work. Since the script has execute permissions as the user, just put: /home/example/cron-jobs/deletemail_it.sh or you could do: bash /home/example/cron-jobs/deletemail_it.sh but its not necessary Otherwise, it should work.

  
  Thanks Sir. It works now

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  JessC

  • October 03, 2019 18:18

  Hi Sir, Why do I have this error in other domain? /home/s1076714/cron/deletemail.sh: line 2: /home/s1076714/mail/example.com.au/someusr.cubio/cur: is a directory

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  JessC

  • October 03, 2019 18:33

  Hi Sir, Why do I have this error in other domain? /home/s1076714/cron/deletemail.sh: line 2: /home/s1076714/mail/example.com.au/someusr.cubio/cur: is a directory

  
  Nevermind, I find my mistake.

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  cPanelLauren

  • October 04, 2019 20:39

  Glad to see you were able to get the issue resolved @JessC

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