Batch mail deleting by date

teknom

• March 07, 2017 07:30

hello, i have some mail clients over 50++ on different domains. is it possible to delete older mails on mailboxes by date? i want to delete older than 2016 (receive time) mails from all users mailboxes.

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  24x7server

  • March 07, 2017 12:46

  Hi, You can use the find command in the particular directory to search it and remove it completely.. For example if you want to remove files older than 10 days, use below command: # find /path/to/files* -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \; You can alter the command as per your requirement to do this..

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  teknom

  • March 08, 2017 11:55

  i search some dirs and got this dir for mails. i guess inbox mails are stored in /home/domainuser*/homedir/mail/domain.com*/mailuser*/cur directory. but these files does not have any extension. if i delete these files from this directory, does it cause any error? i mean these mail files indexed anywhere? mysql table or something else?

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  teknom

  • March 08, 2017 13:46

  okay i got this, all mail files name includes my FQDN name and i find and print mails older than 90 days with this command. find /home/ -name '*mycpaneladress.com,S=*' -mtime +90 -print
  but i tried to add -exec rm {} \ command its not worked. no mails deleted. how can i combine this command with -exec ? ohh i forgot the semicolon. thats done thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 08, 2017 14:25

  Hello, I'm happy to see you were able to address the issue. As I understand, you wanted to remove all emails past a certain date, not just the ones in the "Trash" directory, however I do want to note the existence of the following feature in "WHM >> Mailserver Configuration": Auto Expunge Trash When this option is enabled, the system will remove messages in the Trash and Deleted Messages folders based on the expiration time configured in the option found below it. Thank you.

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  teknom

  • March 09, 2017 07:41

  Thanks Michael i already use this feature but some of my clients storage their mails on inbox folder older than 2015. some mailboxes sized over GBs. actually, my problem is lower disk space. and i checked on backup files, the mail folders take up more spaces. therefor i find this solution :) any way for excluding mail folders on backup configuration?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 09, 2017 15:42

  any way for excluding mail folders on backup configuration?

  
  Hello, You can find a solution to this question at: Exclude mail folder from backup for all accounts Thanks!

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