Purge email server side?

[Brock]

Howdy:

Thanks in advance for taking the time to review this issue for me.

I have a customer using joomla who has setup a cron job for one of joomla's many extensions. This cron job runs every minute and then drops an email in the accounts default email account stating the cron job ran. This has been running well over a year and there is something like 170,000 emails in that users default email box.

So the question is:

How do I delete the email from that email box server side?

Thanks for any and all help.

[PascM]

Hello,
You have to login on your customers account and clear the email box from his cp.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by PascM

Hello,
You have to login on your customers account and clear the email box from his cp.

I was looking for something a bit more command line / automated.

You can do this with the following commands via SSH:

cd /home/USERNAMEHERE/mail/new;
find -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

cd /home/USERNAMEHERE/mail/cur;
find -type f -exec rm -f {} \;