Webmail Cleanup

[samporras]

I'm not too familiar with how webmail operates on the backend, but is there or are there any kinds of script that can be run that could delete all emails older than a certain date. I have an account being used by a client that is taking up around 80MB of disk space. (I have the feeling someone hasn't been deleting their emails...)

 

Any suggestions on how do delete without having to physically go in and delete everything one at a time?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Sam

[stevevan]

You may want to check some of the options available to you in the webmail application. I think some allow you to set parameters to do this.

 

Just a tho't!

[samporras]

Thanks for the quick response. I mainly use horde and i did not see any options to purge older emails across the board. I only saw options to purge the trash folder.

 

I will loook through the other two webmail programs and see...if not i'll search around cpanel and see if there are any scripts for what i'm looking for.

 

Thanks.

[goatgirl]

Hi, you can set this up in cpanel.

 

cpanel

mail

manage/add/remove accounts

aging

 

then you can set the number of days emails are kept on the server.

 

Make sure you give the client a heads-up before you do this.