{"id":65,"date":"2013-11-26T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etapien.com\/guides\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:22:37","slug":"how-to-delete-trash-and-junk-from-a-cpanel-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etapien.com\/guides\/how-to-delete-trash-and-junk-from-a-cpanel-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete all Trash, Spam and Junk on a cPanel server"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here is an easy way to delete all Junk, Spam and Trash from all accounts under \/home on a cPanel server, this command will delete anything that’s older than 30 days, you can actually change that to whatever you want; you will need root access to the server.<\/p>\n

Let’s create a new bash script:<\/p>\n

nano \/root\/delete_all_junk.sh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now paste the following into the newly created file, and then save and exit:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\nMAILDIRS=$(find \/home\/*\/mail\/*\/* -maxdepth 0 -type d)
\nINBOXFOLDERS=(.Trash .Junk .Spam .Low\\ Priority .cPanel\\ Reports)
\nfor basedir in $MAILDIRS; do
\nfor ((i = 0; i < ${#INBOXFOLDERS[*]}; i++)); do
\nfor dir in cur new; do
\n[ -e “$basedir\/${INBOXFOLDERS[$i]}\/$dir” ] && (
\necho “Processing $basedir\/${INBOXFOLDERS[$i]}\/$dir…”
\nfind “$basedir\/${INBOXFOLDERS[$i]}\/$dir\/” -type f -mtime +30 -delete
\n)
\ndone
\ndone
\ndone
\n\/scripts\/generate_maildirsize –verbose –allaccounts –force –confirm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s make the newly created file executable:<\/p>\n

chmod +x \/root\/delete_all_junk.sh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then you can simply execute the file and it will do some clean up:<\/p>\n

sh \/root\/delete_all_junk.sh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To change the amount of days look at the following line:<\/p>\n

find “$basedir\/${INBOXFOLDERS[$i]}\/$dir\/” -type f -mtime +30 -delete<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and change the 30 for something else, depending on what you want.<\/p>\n

This works great should you ever need to do a clean up of this sort, you can also create a cron job to clean up every once in a while and if you want to skip the trash and only delete Junk and Spam folder’s contents then just remove .Trash from the third line.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Have you ever wanted to delete all Junk, Spam and Trash mail for all users on your cPanel server? 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