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Cron Job to Clear Out an Overstuffed Email Inbox                                              Written by yolanda
                             Topics: Email Tips, General Tips
                                                               
                                                                  You have an email inbox that is filled up.  Or perhaps  your "spam box" is filled up. You have so many emails to delete that it  would take you forever to clear it out, page by page with NeoMail.  One  of my customers cried for help because of 35 MBs of spam that had  accumulated.
 It is time for drastic action. I say "drastic" because this cron job  will delete all the emails in one fell swoop. And it will delete all  emails that are in the email inbox everytime it runs. There is no  recovery path for getting any of those emails back. Nonetheless, in some  cases deleting all emails is justified. I use this with some accounts. I  might be deleting real emails, but there is so much crap, that I feel  it is worth it. Just so you know the downside of this cron job.
 Here is the syntax for deleting all email in the inbox of the default email address for a website:
 

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echo -n > /home/youraccount/mail/inbox Replace youraccount with your site login name (for example, the name you use to FTP to your site).
 To determine the path to another email address, log into your site via FTP. Go to the mail directory (it is at the same level as public_html).   Here you will see other email addresses as directory names. Click  around, there might be subdirectories that you want to work with. To  delete mail from a different email address, replace inbox above with the path you found while exploring via FTP.
 Good luck. Happy email deleting. I think it feels good to blow away  all that email.  And I do it regularly for some accounts using this  handy cron job.