{"id":1106,"date":"2014-12-17T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:15:44","slug":"how-to-clear-default-cpanel-email-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-clear-default-cpanel-email-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to clear cPanel default email account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cPanel by standard makes an e-mail account same as cPanel\u2019s username. It is not possible to remove this e-mail account and it may be used by cPanel internally.<br \/>\nMail in your default account is stored in the two subdirectories named &#8220;cur&#8221; and &#8220;new<br \/>\nYou may find it in\u00a0<strong>\/home\/username\/mail\/<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you want to remove all the emails for the default email account follow the steps given below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \"># cd \/home\/username\/mail\/cur\r\n# rm -rf *\r\n# \/home\/username\/mail\/new\r\n# rm -rf *<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even after removing all the emails from cur and new directory, the email disk quota in cPanel won\u2019t be modified. This is because the email disk quota is cached in the file\u00a0<strong>maildirsize\u00a0<\/strong>so we can rename the file:<\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">mv maildirsize maildirsize_old<\/pre>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s it .<br \/>\n[wpfmb type=&#8217;info&#8217; theme=2]Important! If you just want to disable default Email address in cPanel you can follow the steps by <a title=\"Disable default Email address in cPanel\" href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/disable-default-email-address-in-cpanel\/\">clicking here<\/a>.[\/wpfmb]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cPanel by standard makes an e-mail account same as cPanel\u2019s username. It is not possible to remove this e-mail account and it may be used by cPanel internally. 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