How can I find a user by his/her email address?

[12803]

Hello to all,

Sometimes a user will send me a support question without providing a domain or a user name or even his name.

I have only his email address (third party email service, e.g. Gmail, Hotmail) to try and look up the account.

As this might be the same address provided when opening the account, is there a way to search for the user?

Thank you,
Me.

 

[Greenhost]

I think it's impossible in DA, but you could do it via SSH.

 

[Greenhost]

Go to "/usr/local/directadmin/data/users" and testest the following code

grep -lir "emailaddress" *.com

 

[Greenhost]

Sorry, change *.com to *.conf

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users
grep -lir "emailaddress"  *.conf

 

[12803]

Perfect!
Thanks a lot.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users
grep -lir "[email protected]" .