How to delete users large inbox

[aidan]

I have a user with their primary account email which he doesn't use have over 51,000 emails in the inbox using 160+ mb storage.
The person must have setup the cron wrong and not noticed the cron emails going to the inbox. Anyway, I can't access the webmail account inbox for this account, it goes to a "page cannot be found" when trying to access it.

Is there a way to delete this persons email from this email account server-side?

Where is a users email data stored, in what directory? The user has requested me to empty this email account but keep other emails stored in other email accounts.

 

[nobaloney]

Easiest way would be to delete the account and set it up again.

Jeff

 

[aidan]

There must be a way to do it without having to create another account everytime this happens right?

 

[nobaloney]

Sorry, I misread "primary account".

I apologize.

The file should be at:

/var/spool/mail/username

You can just delete it; the next email to come in should recreate it.

Jeff

 

[aidan]

Will this delete all messages in all email accounts do you know?

 

[nobaloney]

It will delete all the email in the primary email account.

Each email account has it's own mailbox file.

The primary email account file is in /var/spool/mail/username. The additional email account mailboxes are in /var/spool/virtual/example.com/username.

Jeff

 

[aidan]

Thanks jlasman, worked perfectly.