Delete old emails or just old junk emails for one or all users

I have created a nice script that deletes old emails for either a single user or all users. It can also handle junk/spam emails only - which will also help to keep the account space usage down. Usage examples: A single user, with emails a year or older: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh someuser 12 A single user, with junk email to delete, 3 months or older sh ./delete_old_emails.sh anotheruser 3 junk All users, with junk email to delete, 6 months or older sh ./delete_old_emails.sh all 6 junk This can easily be set to run using CRON. #!/bin/sh #################################################################### # # # DELETE OLD EMAILS # # # # Coded by Noah Hearle, Design Extreme # # https://designextreme.com # # # # Created: 2014/03/29 # # Modified: 2021/10/14 # # # # Delete old emails for particular users or all users # # # # Post your comments at: # # https://blog.noah.hearle.com/cpanel-delete-old-emails/ # # # # Usage: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh # # # #################################################################### user=$1 age=$2 junk=$3 this=$(readlink -f $0) if [ ! -n "$user" ] && ! [[ "$age" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then echo -e "\e[38;5;202mError:\e[0m Please enter the user and the age in months" echo 'Usage: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh ' exit fi if [ ! -n "$user" ]; then echo -e "\e[38;5;202mError:\e[0m Please enter the user" echo 'Usage: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh ' exit fi if ! [[ "$age" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then echo -e "\e[38;5;202mError:\e[0m Please enter the age in months" echo 'Usage: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh ' exit fi if [ "$age" -lt 2 ]; then echo -e "\e[38;5;202mError:\e[0m Please enter an age of 2 or more months" echo 'Usage: sh ./delete_old_emails.sh ' exit fi if [[ "$user" == '*' ]] || [[ "$user" == 'all' ]]; then for directory in $(getent passwd | cut -d: -f6); do user=$(sed -r 's#^/home/([^/]+)/?.*$#\1#' <<< $directory) if [ ! -f "/var/cpanel/users/$user" ]; then continue; fi sh $this $user $age $junk done exit fi if [ ! -f "/var/cpanel/users/$user" ]; then echo -e "\e[38;5;202mError:\e[0m The user: $user doesn"t exist" exit fi cd /home/ if [ -n "$junk" ]; then find -P /home/$user/mail/*/*/\.{Junk,spam}/* -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -mtime +$(($age * 31)) -delete echo -e "\e[38;5;118mSuccess:\e[0m Removed old junk emails for user: \e[1m$user\e[0m older than $age months" exit fi find -P /home/$user/mail/*/*/* -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -mtime +$(($age * 31)) -delete echo -e "\e[38;5;118mSuccess:\e[0m Removed old emails for user: \e[1m$user\e[0m older than $age months"