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Prethorian

Oct 17 2005, 04:01 PM

Here is usefull script for empty all Trash (or any folder) in virtual site home dirs

touch trash.sh
chmod 755 trash.sh

vi trash.sh

CODE

#!/bin/sh

path=`echo /home/virtual/site*/fst/home/*/mail`

for x in $path;

do

echo "$x/$1"

cat /dev/null > $x/$1

done

use script with:

./trash.sh Trash

This will do cat /dev/null >/home/virtual/siteXX/fst/home/USER/mail/Trash

You can give Sent as argument ( ./trash.sh Sent ).

This is usefull, when users use webmail, and after delete hes messages, they forget to empty trash, and then disk quota was reached.

regards.

DomineauX

Aug 27 2009, 01:25 PM

I know this is a major thread necro, but here is a simpler way to auto empty Trash.

I create /etc/cron.weekly/empty_trash containing the following:

----
#!/bin/sh
for i in `ls -1 /home/virtual/site*/fst/home/*/mail/Trash`;do >$i;done
----

chmod 755 /etc/cron.weekly/empty_trash
service crond restart

Every week the Trash is auto emptied.

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