How to clear all the emails for default cPanel email account

Default email accounts are stored in 2 folders called “cur” and “new” under /home/username/mail/

So you need to clear all the filer under  /home/username/mail/cur/ and  /home/username/mail/new/

Run the following commands to clear the files

rm -rf /home/username/mail/cur/*

rm -rf /home/username/mail/new/*

The changes in the usage wont reflect in cPanel interface. Because the disk usage details are stored in file called maildirsize so lets rename it

mv maildirsize maildirsize_old

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