Topic: Purge mail from command line

[fosdyke]

Have SME server V 6.02 and have run out of disk space, probably due to large volume of mail.

Can't access mail accounts via webmail/pop/imap to delete mail can this be done via command line, or can I clear out any other files (say log files) to generate enough space to do any of the above?

[gardnc]

Mail in SME 6 is stored in:

/home/e-smith/files/users/YOURUSERNAME/Maildir/

and inside that directory /new holds unread mail, /cur holds read but undeleted mail, /tmp may have other mail.

There may be other directories like junkmail/cur, etc. and INBOX or sent-mail/cur, etc. that can all be checked for mail to be removed.  

The mail files can be deleted with an rm command.

Good Luck

[fosdyke]

Thanks for the reply - I figured it out whilst I was waiting, but thanks anyway.