Hi,

I can't get to my plesk control panel and I don't know my old mail account password and I have only got the email account configured with a crap email client that won't let me do much more then RECEIVE them THEN delete them.

I need a quicker way to get rid of these 50,000 emails. Where on my red hat linux plesk 7.1.4 server would the files to delete them be.

I have seen allot of directory's with 0,1,2,3,3 etc up to 22 or something, and deleted allot of them messages in them folders (rm -rf *) but still no luck, they seem to be everywhere, where can I pinpoint the right folder?

(I hadnt checked this email account in months.)

I see that it might be under this directory:
/var/qmail/queue/

In that folder are these folders:

Info
Bounce
Todo
Remote
Mess
Local
intd

which one?


OR

How can I just delete this one email account through telnet/SSH? So that it will delete the emails. I don't use this email account anymore.

Ok, I think I looking in the wrong folders completely, as I already have a script to delete the files in the qmail queue.

Where should I be looking for my incoming email messages?

I THink I found it:
/var/qmail/mailnames/****SECRET****.com/mark/Maildir

but when i do rm -rf *
is says:

bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

how can i mass delete them?

I need something similar to what this page says:
http://rc3.org/2006/12/too_much_mail.php

but he's solution don't work for me.

cur]# $find . -type f | xargs rm
bash: .: -t: invalid option
.: usage: . filename
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.

Woops, forgot to take off the dollar sign.

All fixed now.

find . -type f | xargs rm

^ was the answer

/var/qmail/mailnames/***SECRET**.com/mark/Maildir/cur/

^ was the directory I was after.

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