Delete emails in account by cron

[kamm]

I'd like to delete all emails in an account's inbox that are older than 1 month on a daily basis.

What would be the best way to go about this?

I'm thinking cron with a PHP script?

But, UAPI / API 1 / API 2 - which one to use?

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! Is there a specific reason you need to use an API at all for this work? I would just use some combination of find and mtime to search for the messages and then remove those automatically with the script.

 

[kamm]

Hi @cPRex, yes I'm thinking that might be easier. So far I have this,

find /home/cpanel_user/mail/example.com/backups/cur -type f -mtime +30 -delete
find /home/cpanel_user/mail/example.com/backups/new -type f -mtime +30 -delete

Which works OK.

Any tips on how can recalibrate the maildirsize?

 

[cPRex]

maildirsize is just a flat file, so you can remove it and then recreate it with this:

/scripts/generate_maildirsize --confirm --allaccounts

and that will take care of it for all the domains on the system.

 

[kamm]

Thanks.

It seems I can do this to target just the one account without removing the file first.

/scripts/generate_maildirsize --force --confirm  cpanel_user

 

[cPRex]

That's also an option if you only wanted to perform the work on one domain :D