Delete emails in account by cron

kamm

• February 02, 2021 12:03

I'd like to delete all emails in an account's inbox that are older than 1 month on a daily basis. What would be the best way to go about this? I'm thinking cron with a PHP script? But, UAPI / API 1 / API 2 - which one to use?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 02, 2021 17:25

  Hey there! Is there a specific reason you need to use an API at all for this work? I would just use some combination of find and mtime to search for the messages and then remove those automatically with the script.

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  kamm

  • February 02, 2021 18:13

  Hi @cPRex, yes I'm thinking that might be easier. So far I have this, find /home/cpanel_user/mail/example.com/backups/cur -type f -mtime +30 -delete find /home/cpanel_user/mail/example.com/backups/new -type f -mtime +30 -delete Which works OK. Any tips on how can recalibrate the maildirsize?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 02, 2021 18:51

  maildirsize is just a flat file, so you can remove it and then recreate it with this: /scripts/generate_maildirsize --confirm --allaccounts
  and that will take care of it for all the domains on the system.

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  kamm

  • February 03, 2021 05:42

  Thanks. It seems I can do this to target just the one account without removing the file first. /scripts/generate_maildirsize --force --confirm cpanel_user
  

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 03, 2021 13:40

  That's also an option if you only wanted to perform the work on one domain :D

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