How to auto-empty a specific mailbox daily?

[Pagemakers]

Is there any way to auto-delete all the messages in a specific mailbox on a specify domain on a daily basis?

Using Postfix.

 

[InsertCoin]

This would need to be done via ssh

You would need a script to do it:

#!/bin/bash

# Specify the domain name used for the email address
DOMAIN="example.com"

# Specify the local part of the email address
MAILBOX="mailbox"

# Find only files in the new directory and delete them
find /var/qmail/mailnames/$DOMAIN/$MAILBOX/Maildir/new/ -type f -delete

#Enable this string to delete files in the cur directory too
find /var/qmail/mailnames/$DOMAIN/$MAILBOX/Maildir/cur/ -type f -delete

#Alternative way if the above isn't performing well, however as this is using "rm -rf" I think its a bit dangerous
#find /var/qmail/mailnames/$DOMAIN/$MAILBOX/Maildir/new/ -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

You can add this into your server and then create a cronjob to run it at the times you require.

 

[InsertCoin]

Additionally:

You can delete the mailbox (and thus all the emails inside it) and recreate it via the command line - this may be safer but depending on the size of the mailbox may be rather slow.

Create a script to run the following commands:

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --update [email protected] -mailbox false
/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --update [email protected] -mailbox true

Deleting the mailbox this way does not change the password for the mailbox, as it continues to exist with the password table (tested on my Plesk 11.5 server)

 

[Pagemakers]

Thank you. Your second options seems simpler. I guess there will only be a couple of MB per day to delete. I’m on 11.5 too

 

[BobPxx]

Will these also delete email attachment files?