Best Solution for a customer's emails
Hi,
We have a customer who has over 10GB of emails and I'm pretty sure we can help them save some space because
They basically have the following emails accounts setup in cPanel:
admin@website.com
support@website.com
person@website.com
otherperson@website.com
oldstaffmember@website.com
help@otherwebsite.com
lists@otherwebsite.com
admin@otherwebsite.com
- They only login to support@website.com and person@website.com and otherperson@website.com
- They have emails set to forward from admin@website.com and oldstaffmember@website.com to forward to person@website.com
- They have emails set to forward from lists@otherwebsite.com setup to forward to person@website.com and otherperson@website.com
- They have emails set to forward from admin@otherwebsite.com to forward to person@website.com
- They have emails set to forward from help@otherwebsite.com to forward to support@website.com
As they never login to all of the following emails, surely those accounts can be deleted because as far as I am aware you don't need an inbox to forward? Correct?
admin@website.com
oldstaffmember@website.com
help@otherwebsite.com
lists@otherwebsite.com
admin@otherwebsite.com
Any advice would be welcome!
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Assuming your client agrees, It might be better to delete all emails before X date. You can use the feature in cPanel>>>email>>>email disk usage to achieve this. 0 -
Actually, you could probably outright remove some of these mailboxes. When an account exists a forwarder will deliver mail to the existing mailbox as well as the forwarding mailbox. When the account doesn't exist it delivers only to the forwarding mailbox. My assumption is, in the case of the 2 admin@, oldstaffmember@ lists@ and help@ no one is logging into these mailboxes and removing the mail. So yes with that understanding you could most likely save them some space by removing those mailboxes. 0
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