Delete many, like many forwarders

Carl-Johan Larsson

• August 20, 2023 11:38

I have many (many) forwarders. I host +100 domains that each has +100 emails and over the years, we have added forwarders to many external systems. I understand that I cant remove forwarders (bulk) in cPanel, but there has to be a workaround. Let's say I want to delete all forwarders to xx@xx.xom, or whatever@xx.com, how can I do that?

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  SimpleSonic

  • August 21, 2023 14:33

  The forwarders are saved in: /etc/valiases/domainname
  Where "domainname" is the domain name of the account the forwarders are created.

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  techAMIGO

  • August 22, 2023 12:47

  Hi you can empty the file /etc/valiases/domainname That will delete all forwarders for the specific domain.

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  SimpleSonic

  • August 22, 2023 13:53

  Hi you can empty the file /etc/valiases/domainname That will delete all forwarders for the specific domain.

  
  That file also can contain the default address information, so completely clearing or deleting that file may lose that info, such as: :fail: No Such User Here
  So you may want to take care when removing any info from the file unless you want to go back and reconfigure the default address for those email accounts.

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  James Luton

  • December 11, 2023 20:13

  In cpanel, I do not see a directory "valiases" within "etc"   Might it be elsewhere?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 11, 2023 21:43

  James Luton - you would need to be logged into the server as the root user over SSH in order to see those directories.

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