Huge Email Sizes on account

[duxovni]

Hello,

We do not use directadmin mail on specific account
Whats that accumulated 5GB mail? and how to delete it?
thanks

 

[duxovni]

Here is screenshot (cant figure out how to attach)

https://ibb.co/ewTWXF

 

[Richard G]

Looks to me stored mail on the server, probably with attachment because of the size.

One way of deleting them is logging in to the account with webmail and remove all from there.

A quick and dirty way is to delete the email account and if necessary, create it again afterwards.

 

[webaltern]

Hi!

on your screenshot it's look like the main account (same as login). If you got mail at this address, it's probably the result of a cronjob under your client account. Be sure that all cronjob finish by "> /dev/null 2>&1" to prevent receive and e-mail each time the cronjob run.

Sorry for my bad english.....

Regards,

 

[sysdev]

The main user account ( [email protected] ) will also store mail/spam simply sent to [email protected]. But it's a forwarder itself.
To deny incoming mail, create a forwarder '[email protected]' and set it's target address to either ':fail:' or ':blackhole:'.

Regarding the cronjobs. You should make sure your cronjob has no screen output if it succeeds. No output = no email.
If it fails and outputs an error, you'll still receive the email. This is generally a good idea

Just take a look at the mail in case it IS important, then delete it and setup the forwarder.