Delete incoming emails everyday using a Cron

Ruzeen

• December 11, 2016 17:03

Hi everyone, I have forwarded mails to my Gmail account but I don't want any emails to be retained on the server. And I can't delete the mail account and just use the forwarder because I need the SMTP info to reply from Gmail. Is it possible to delete all incoming emails from a particular mail account everyday, using a cron job? Does anyone know how I can achieve this? Or is there a better way to go about this? Much thanks!

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  Eric

  • December 12, 2016 04:46

  Howdy, You've got 2 options I can think of in this insomnia: 1. Make the output of the crontab go away. Add the > /dev/null to the end of the command and it should shut its trap. An example:
  * * * * * /usr/local/sbin/mycommand.sh > /dev/null
  2. Remove the mail address it's pointing to. Delete or set a dev/null account for the MAILTO= line in the crontab. Thanks!

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  Ruzeen

  • December 12, 2016 21:25

  Thanks

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